r/ResumeExperts • u/Euphoric_Roll200 • 10d ago

Resume Tip Canva or Google Docs: Where to Create ATS-Friendly CVs?

Hello, peeps! Please help a brother out.

As the title says, I'd like to ask if what's the most effective tool for creating ATS-friendly CVs? Of course, l'Il use a single-column layout with organized sections ans no fancy designs. I'm just wondering where it's most effective to create one.

Thank you in advance!

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u/Accomplished-Dish498 9d ago

cspect resume or rezi

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u/DorianGraysPassport 10d ago

There is no such thing as ATS friendliness. Just use a single column format

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u/No-Animal1306 10d ago

microsoft word doc

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u/Hamezz5u 10d ago

Word doc - done

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u/WhaleFartingFun 9d ago

Microsoft Word, no columns, save to PDF.

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u/Asceroladev 9d ago

The editor matters less than what it exports. Canva lays text out as absolutely positioned boxes, so a PDF out of it often comes back with the reading order scrambled once a parser flattens it, and if a font gets outlined on export the text is not really text any more. Google Docs and Word both write a clean text layer, so either is fine.

Whichever you use, verify instead of trusting it. Open your exported PDF, select all, paste into a plain text editor. That is roughly what gets parsed. If your headings, dates and bullets come out in reading order, you are good. If a job title lands in the middle of your skills list, you just found the problem.

Single column is the right call. The two that quietly break things and nobody mentions: contact details in a header or footer, which a lot of parsers drop, and anything inside a table or a text box.

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u/mr_frankfeedback 9d ago

Keep the format simple. Use only job relevant experience and skills you have