ResumeForgeWrite a resume and a matching cover letter on real, print-exact pages. Eight templates, a red-pencil review that marks the lines worth another look, a keyword match with the job ad you paste, and fit on one page. Download a PDF, a Word file or plain text for job portals. Everything stays in your browser: nothing you type is uploaded.
Shortcuts: outside a text box Ctrl+Z undoes and Ctrl+Y redoes a change, Ctrl+P saves as PDF, and ? opens the help. In a description, Enter at the end of a bullet starts the next one. Esc closes a window or a menu, and the arrow keys move between the tabs.
Begin with an empty resume, fill in the example to see every part working, or import the resume you already have: paste its text from Word, a PDF or LinkedIn and ResumeForge sorts it into sections. A JSON Resume file or a ResumeForge backup opens too.
Personal details, a short summary, experience, education and skills, then any of ten more sections such as projects, certifications or languages. Start a line with a dash for a bullet, type dates the way you like, and drag a section by its handle to move it.
Eight templates drawn with your own content, ten colours or any colour, fonts, text size, spacing and margins. Fit on one page tightens the spacing step by step until everything fits. Headings and dates can be in seven languages.
The Check tab marks the pages in red pencil, the way an editor would: each number in the margin matches a note, such as a line that starts with Responsible for or a job without a single number. Click a note to go straight to the line.
Paste the job ad under Check, Job match. The key terms of the ad appear in two groups: those your resume already uses and those it does not. Add a missing term where it is true for you, to Skills in one click or, better, in a line about your work.
Switch to Cover letter for a letter in the same design, and Write a first draft starts it from your resume and the job. Download a PDF for emailing, a Word file to edit, plain text for job portals, or a backup to carry on later.
A resume carries your name, phone number, email, address and every job you have held. Here the pages and the files are made by your own browser: nothing you type is sent to a server, and there is no account. What you write is kept in this browser until you delete it.
The pages beside the form are laid out in millimetres on A4 or US Letter, page breaks included, so the PDF comes out exactly as shown. An entry that does not fit continues on the next page, and a heading never stays alone at the foot of a page.
The red-pencil review looks for what editors and recruiters often point out: duties instead of results, lines without numbers, I and my, overused phrases, dates out of order and a resume that runs too long. Each note leads to the line, and you decide what to change.
Paste the ad and see which of its key terms your resume already uses, weighed by how much the ad stresses them. Keep one version of your resume for each kind of job, each with its own cover letter and design, and switch between them in a moment.
The letter takes the name, contact details, colour and fonts of the resume, so the two look like a set. Its first draft uses your strongest lines and the job's key terms, and leaves a gap in square brackets for what only you can say about the company.
A PDF for emailing, a single-column Word file, plain text and Markdown, and JSON Resume, the open format other resume tools read. The Word file carries no author name and is set to remove personal information when you save it.
A resume is a short record of what you can do and what you have done, written for the reader who decides whether to call you. At the top go your name, a headline such as your job title, and how to reach you: email, phone, city and a link to a profile or portfolio. Then a summary of two to four sentences, your experience newest first, education and skills. Each job is best told in three to five lines that start with what you did and end with what changed because of it, with a number wherever one is true: people, money, time or a percentage. One page suits most people with under about eight years of experience; two is the usual limit.
Many companies sort applications with software that reads the text of a resume and searches it for the job's key terms. Such systems read a single column with plain headings such as Experience and Education most reliably, and some take two columns as one long line. That is why ResumeForge marks six of its templates as reading well, offers a single-column Word file and plain text, and shows which of the ad's terms your resume already uses. Use the employer's own words where they describe your real experience; adding terms that are not true helps no one in the interview.
A cover letter of 250 to 400 words says why you want this particular role, what you bring, and one result that proves it. It is addressed to a person where you know the name, names the role and the company in the first lines, and ends with a polite request to talk. ResumeForge's first draft follows that order, uses lines from your resume, and leaves one gap in square brackets for something specific about the company, because that part is what makes a letter read as written for them.
It is free, with no registration, no watermark and no limit on resumes, cover letters or downloads. Like every page on ZeroDataUpload, it is supported by advertising.
No. The pages, the review, the job match and the files are made by your browser, and nothing you type is sent to a server. So that you can come back to it, what you write is kept in this browser's storage on this device, which is not encrypted; anyone who uses this browser can open it. Delete everything, in the Your resumes window, removes it, and a backup file keeps a copy on your own disk.
Applicant tracking systems, the software many companies use to sort applications, read a single column most reliably. Classic, Executive, Swiss, Timeline, Banner and Elegant are single-column and carry a shield in the Design view. Sidebar and Compact use two columns: keep them for resumes you email. The Word file is always a single column, and Plain text is for forms that ask you to paste your resume.
It works by fixed rules, the way an editor would read: missing contact details, a summary that is too short or too long, I and my, overused phrases, lines that start with a duty such as Responsible for, jobs without a single number, long bullets, the same opening verb again and again, dates out of order, gaps, too few skills and the page count. It helps you spot lines worth another look; you decide what to change.
Paste the job ad under Check, Job match. ResumeForge picks out its key terms, such as two-word phrases, tools and abbreviations, weighs them by how often and how the ad uses them, and shows which ones your resume already contains. Add a missing term only where it is true for you, best in a line that shows how you used it.
Choose Download, then PDF. The browser's print window opens: set the destination to Save as PDF, leave the margins at Default and the scale at 100, and turn on Background graphics if colours are missing. The PDF matches the pages on screen, its text can be selected and searched, and links stay clickable.
Yes. In Your resumes, choose Import: paste the text of a resume from Word, a PDF or LinkedIn and ResumeForge sorts it into sections, or open a JSON Resume file or a ResumeForge backup. Check each section afterwards, especially the dates.