Executive Resume Template

Yes. It is a single column with standard headings and no tables, text boxes or images — the things that actually break parsers. It scores 93–96 on CVEdge's analyser, a couple of points below the plainest formats purely because of spacing choices, which is irrelevant to real screening. This matters at senior level: below C-suite, most director and VP applications still go through Greenhouse, Workday or iCIMS and are parsed like any other.

Yes — a blank .docx with the spacing, heading styles and two-page structure already set, so you can fill it in offline in Word, Google Docs or Pages. No account and no card. If starting from an empty document is the hard part, upload your existing CV instead and it will be reflowed into this format with an ATS score attached.

Two pages is standard and expected at this level; one page reads as thin above director grade. Three is only defensible for academic, medical or board CVs where publications and appointments are themselves the credential. Executive's spacing is calibrated for two pages — if you are spilling onto a third, the fix is compressing early roles rather than tightening the leading.

Give the last ten to fifteen years real detail, and compress everything earlier into a single 'Earlier career' block of one line per role. This keeps the timeline complete — gaps invite questions — while spending page space where relevance actually is. Roles from more than twenty years ago can usually be dropped entirely unless they carry unusual weight.

It depends entirely on the market. In the US, UK, Canada and Ireland, no — employers frequently discard applications with photos because of discrimination-liability exposure. In much of continental Europe and across the Gulf, photos are common and sometimes expected. Match the country the role is based in rather than where you are applying from.