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Plain-text ATS resume template (Canada, free PDF)

Stripped to nothing: no colour, no rules, hyphen bullets and standard headings. It is the safest possible parse for a strict applicant tracking system, and it pastes into online application forms without dragging formatting garbage along with it.

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Section order

Summary → Skills → Experience → Education

Design

No colour, no rules, hyphen bullets, standard headings

Best for

Anyone applying through a large employer's portal, or through a system that mangled a previous resume.

What makes this template work

  • Safest possible parse for strict ATS
  • Copies cleanly into online application forms

How to fill it in

  1. 1Use hyphens for bullets — special bullet glyphs sometimes come through as question marks.
  2. 2Avoid tabs; use line breaks and spaces so the copy-paste stays intact.
  3. 3Keep one skill per line if the form asks you to paste your resume as text.
  4. 4Replace every bracketed placeholder, save as a text-based PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Resume, then check it against a real posting before you apply.

Not sure this is the right shape for your history? Read the Canadian resume conventions, or compare all 30 free templates.

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