Who it’s for

A single-column design built on typography rather than colour: a large serif name over a full-width hairline, contact details in tracked small capitals, and section labels that ride a rule out to the margin. No sidebar and no colour blocks — the accent appears only in the rules and the labels, which is what a board, a partnership or a clinical panel expects to receive. Delivered as a designed PDF for when a person reads first, together with an ATS-safe Word version for online applications — you get both in the same order.

What you get

• A designed PDF — this exact layout, rendered at print quality for human readers.
• An ATS-safe Word document alongside it (our Executive Clean layout): single-column, no tables used for layout, no text boxes. It is a plain layout built for parsers, not this design — the design is the PDF. Both files, one £2 purchase.
• A 3–5 bullet executive summary tailored to the role you target, each bullet ≤75 words.
• Up to 18 explicit skills, drawn only from your own content — no inferred or invented additions.
• British English throughout (organise, centre, specialised), no first-person pronouns in summary or bullets, banned-cliché list applied at the prompt level.
• Each role keeps its own points — four to six is the shape we aim for, ten is the ceiling — with verbs strengthened and metrics preserved.
• Download link valid seven days.

Designed, not ATS-safe — and why you get both

This layout is built for the moment a human being reads your CV: a recruiter’s inbox, a hiring manager’s desk, a networking introduction. We will not tell you it is ATS-safe, because it isn’t sold as that — applicant tracking systems are plain parsers, and typographic layouts are exactly what makes them drop sections or file them under the wrong heading.

So the £2 buys both files. Send the PDF when a person reads first — the PDF is where this design lives. Upload the ATS-safe Word version to Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, Taleo, iCIMS, BambooHR and SmartRecruiters, where your content needs to land in the right fields rather than look beautiful. Be clear what that file is: a plain single-column layout built for parsers, not this design. Stripping the layout is the job it does. One CV, two audiences, no compromise between them.

What our hallucination guardrail does on this template

A separate verification pass reads the generated CV side-by-side with your source content. Every employer, job title, qualification, certification, language and numeric claim must trace back to something you supplied. Anything that can’t is rejected or flagged for human review. We never invent metrics, embellish leadership scope, or add skills that aren’t already yours — and that is unchanged across every design we ship.

How to use this template

This design is built and previewed in our CV builder, which is where the PDF is rendered. Building and previewing are free — you see the finished document, in this design, before you decide. You pay £2 once, at download, and can add a tailored cover letter for £2 if you have a job description to paste. No account, no subscription.

Build your CV in Refined Serif — the builder opens on this design, free to fill in and preview.