Your resume template doesn’t need to be overly fancy. Instead, the key is the quality of your bullet points.
This is my recommended resume template:
Why This Works
There are several reasons you don’t want to have an overly designed resume template:
- People only spend 6 seconds on your resume: You want that to be content, not design
- You are applying for a PM, not a design role: PMs are too busy to focus on design, for the most part, and instead focus on content
- Your own focus on revisions should be content: If you get into designing your resume, you start to focus on a secondary part of it
How To Use It
Here’s instead what you should focus on with your resume:
- Customizing it for each job: Simply using the same resume everywhere is a path to the rejection pile
- Including the ATS terms: You should cover every bullet in the job description with bullet points in your own resume to get past AI screeners
- Adding statistics, your role in driving them, and their relative scale: PMs live and die by the impact of their features, make yours clear
