Graduate and entry-level resume templates
With little work history, a clear layout does a lot of the work. These templates give education, projects and skills the space they need on a single page.
They are plain enough for application portals and easy to edit as your experience grows.
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Senior Product Designer
Senior product designer with 8+ years shaping data-heavy B2B products from zero to scale. I pair rigorous discovery with high-craft interface work, and have led design on products serving 2M+ monthly users. Known for turning ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Design lead for the reporting and dashboards platform.
- Redesigned the dashboard builder, lifting weekly active creators by 41% and cutting time-to-first-chart from 9 minutes to 90 seconds.
- Built and maintained a 120-component design system adopted by 4 product teams, reducing UI defects by 32%.
- Ran a 6-week discovery with 28 enterprise customers that reshaped the 2024 roadmap and unlocked $3.2M in expansion revenue.
- Mentored 3 mid-level designers; two were promoted within 18 months.
- Led end-to-end design of a patient intake flow used by 340 clinics, reducing form abandonment by 27%.
- Introduced accessibility standards to WCAG 2.1 AA across 40+ screens, clearing a compliance blocker for two hospital contracts.
- Partnered with data science to ship an appointment-risk model into the scheduling UI.
- Shipped 14 client products across fintech, logistics and civic tech.
- Established the studio's research practice, standardising usability testing across every engagement.
Minor in Cognitive Science. Undergraduate research assistant, Design Lab.
An open-source library of accessible chart patterns, used by 4,000+ developers and referenced in two university curricula.
Redesigned a city permit portal with a volunteer team; reduced application errors by 44% in a pilot with 1,200 residents.
ClarityATS
Plain-text discipline built to pass every ATS parser.
Senior Product Designer
Senior product designer with 8+ years shaping data-heavy B2B products from zero to scale. I pair rigorous discovery with high-craft interface work, and have led design on products serving 2M+ monthly users. Known for turning ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Design lead for the reporting and dashboards platform.
- Redesigned the dashboard builder, lifting weekly active creators by 41% and cutting time-to-first-chart from 9 minutes to 90 seconds.
- Built and maintained a 120-component design system adopted by 4 product teams, reducing UI defects by 32%.
- Ran a 6-week discovery with 28 enterprise customers that reshaped the 2024 roadmap and unlocked $3.2M in expansion revenue.
- Mentored 3 mid-level designers; two were promoted within 18 months.
- Led end-to-end design of a patient intake flow used by 340 clinics, reducing form abandonment by 27%.
- Introduced accessibility standards to WCAG 2.1 AA across 40+ screens, clearing a compliance blocker for two hospital contracts.
- Partnered with data science to ship an appointment-risk model into the scheduling UI.
- Shipped 14 client products across fintech, logistics and civic tech.
- Established the studio's research practice, standardising usability testing across every engagement.
Minor in Cognitive Science. Undergraduate research assistant, Design Lab.
An open-source library of accessible chart patterns, used by 4,000+ developers and referenced in two university curricula.
Redesigned a city permit portal with a volunteer team; reduced application errors by 44% in a pilot with 1,200 residents.
CompactATS
Engineered to keep a long history on a single page.
Senior Product Designer
Senior product designer with 8+ years shaping data-heavy B2B products from zero to scale. I pair rigorous discovery with high-craft interface work, and have led design on products serving 2M+ monthly users. Known for turning ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Design lead for the reporting and dashboards platform.
- Redesigned the dashboard builder, lifting weekly active creators by 41% and cutting time-to-first-chart from 9 minutes to 90 seconds.
- Built and maintained a 120-component design system adopted by 4 product teams, reducing UI defects by 32%.
- Ran a 6-week discovery with 28 enterprise customers that reshaped the 2024 roadmap and unlocked $3.2M in expansion revenue.
- Mentored 3 mid-level designers; two were promoted within 18 months.
- Led end-to-end design of a patient intake flow used by 340 clinics, reducing form abandonment by 27%.
- Introduced accessibility standards to WCAG 2.1 AA across 40+ screens, clearing a compliance blocker for two hospital contracts.
- Partnered with data science to ship an appointment-risk model into the scheduling UI.
- Shipped 14 client products across fintech, logistics and civic tech.
- Established the studio's research practice, standardising usability testing across every engagement.
Minor in Cognitive Science. Undergraduate research assistant, Design Lab.
An open-source library of accessible chart patterns, used by 4,000+ developers and referenced in two university curricula.
Redesigned a city permit portal with a volunteer team; reduced application errors by 44% in a pilot with 1,200 residents.
AuroraATS
Clean modern baseline with generous whitespace.
Senior Product Designer
Senior product designer with 8+ years shaping data-heavy B2B products from zero to scale. I pair rigorous discovery with high-craft interface work, and have led design on products serving 2M+ monthly users. Known for turning ambiguous problems into shipped, measurable outcomes.
Design lead for the reporting and dashboards platform.
- Redesigned the dashboard builder, lifting weekly active creators by 41% and cutting time-to-first-chart from 9 minutes to 90 seconds.
- Built and maintained a 120-component design system adopted by 4 product teams, reducing UI defects by 32%.
- Ran a 6-week discovery with 28 enterprise customers that reshaped the 2024 roadmap and unlocked $3.2M in expansion revenue.
- Mentored 3 mid-level designers; two were promoted within 18 months.
- Led end-to-end design of a patient intake flow used by 340 clinics, reducing form abandonment by 27%.
- Introduced accessibility standards to WCAG 2.1 AA across 40+ screens, clearing a compliance blocker for two hospital contracts.
- Partnered with data science to ship an appointment-risk model into the scheduling UI.
- Shipped 14 client products across fintech, logistics and civic tech.
- Established the studio's research practice, standardising usability testing across every engagement.
Minor in Cognitive Science. Undergraduate research assistant, Design Lab.
An open-source library of accessible chart patterns, used by 4,000+ developers and referenced in two university curricula.
Redesigned a city permit portal with a volunteer team; reduced application errors by 44% in a pilot with 1,200 residents.
CrispATS
Boxed headings and tight type — engineer-friendly.
Previews use sample content. Every template can be re-coloured and re-typeset in the editor.
What to include
Education with substance
Include relevant coursework, grades if strong, and a dissertation or capstone if related to the job.
Projects and internships
Describe what you built or achieved, and link to anything you can share publicly.
Transferable skills
Part-time jobs, volunteering and societies show reliability and teamwork — use specific examples.
Keep it to one page
Compact spacing and tight sections help an early-career resume fit on one page.
Frequently asked questions
- Are these graduate resume templates free to use?
- Yes. Every Craftfolio template is free: create an account, pick a design, fill in your details and download a PDF or DOCX with no watermark.
- Can I change the template later?
- Yes. Your content is stored separately from the design, so you can switch templates, colours or fonts at any time without retyping anything. Clarity, Compact, Aurora and Crisp are all labelled ATS-safe.