Civic Resume Template — Free, ATS-Friendly

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Civic is laid out like an official form. Your name and headline open a bordered box under a heavy dark top edge, with your email, phone, location, and web addresses in labeled cells beneath them. Each section starts with a grey shaded bar on a dark edge, your core competencies fill a grid of hairline cells, and every job reads as a record: a bold title over labeled organization, location, and dates fields, then your bullet points, with a fine rule before the next record. Dates are written as numbers, such as 03/2022 – Present.

Civic suits federal, state, and local government applicants, civil service and public administration roles, policy and program analysts, defense contractors, veterans moving into civilian work, nonprofit program staff, school and university administrators, and compliance, audit, and grants professionals. Reviewers in these fields often read against a checklist, and clear labels let them find each fact at a glance.

The body is a single column of real, selectable text under standard section headings, with labeled fields and numeric dates that applicant tracking systems read well. Note that the contact box, section bars, and job records are set in tables, which some older ATS software reads less reliably than plain paragraphs. Download your Civic resume as a PDF or Word document (.docx) — free, no watermark.

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