Basic Centred Resume Template
Centered — Name and contact details centred at the top. Traditional and widely accepted.
Available in multiple color accents
Click “Use this template” to customize colors, fonts, and section ordering.
- Ink Theme
- Navy Theme
- Teal Theme
- Burgundy Theme
- Bronze Theme
- Azure Theme
How the Centered template is built
- Structure
- One column, top to bottom
- Header
- Centred name, contact line beneath
- Section headings
- Small caps over a hairline rule
- Spacing
- Balanced, the default
- Photo
- Not used
Who the Centered template suits
Traditional sectors and shorter resumes, where a centred name suits the formality of the application.
What to watch out for
Centred text is fractionally harder to scan than ranged left, because the eye has to find a new starting point on each line.
How much fits on one page
Capacity is middle of the road: comfortable for five to ten years of experience on a single page. Beyond that, drop the text size a notch in the builder rather than cutting a role.
Centered and applicant tracking systems
Centered is a single column, which is the arrangement applicant tracking systems read most reliably. A parser walks the page top to bottom and gets your sections in the order you wrote them. Nothing about this template needs adjusting before you upload it to a job portal.
Where in the world to send the Centered template
Comfortable in traditional sectors worldwide, and the conventional shape for graduate and campus applications across India, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia. In Germany and Switzerland the expected Lebenslauf is tabular and ranged left, so a centred header reads as less formal than the market wants.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Centered already selected.
- Type your details. Everything saves in your own browser and is never uploaded.
- Try the 20 colour themes and 21 font pairings from the Design panel — 420 combinations of this one layout.
- Download as PDF to keep this design, or as Word if you are applying through a job portal.
Centered template questions
Is centred text harder to read?
Fractionally, and only in the header. The eye has to find a new starting point on each centred line, which is why body text everywhere is ranged left. Over three or four header lines the cost is negligible; it is the reason no layout here centres your bullet points.
When should I choose this over Classic?
When the application is formal and the document is short — a graduate CV, a public-sector form, an academic submission. A centred name suits a page with a lot of white space and looks increasingly stranded on a dense two-page history.
Does a centred header look dated?
It looks traditional, which is a liability in design and a virtue in academia, medicine, law and government. The layout is otherwise entirely current — the centring is the only conservative choice in it, and it is a deliberate one.