Academic CV template
A long-form layout in EB Garamond, double rules, skills set as running text. Built to detail without breaking the page.
Free, no credit card.
- When to pick it
- The right pick for an academic application or a research dossier, where completeness beats brevity.
- Industries
- Universities · Research · Healthcare · Teaching
Who this template is for
This template is for applications where completeness beats brevity, and where the one-page rule does not apply. Universities, research, healthcare, teaching: a selection committee expects the full list of degrees, supervisions, courses and publications, and it will read it. It is also the right format for a qualification dossier, a grant application or a hospital post, where the document serves as an administrative record as much as a presentation.
How the layout is built
A single column, designed to run over several pages without the layout drifting. The header stays sober: name, title, contact line. Section headings are framed by double rules, a typographic convention of academic publishing, and the whole is set in EB Garamond, the most literary serif in the catalogue. Skills are not tags but written as running text, which avoids the grid of pills that fits a research profile poorly. Experience entries accept long descriptions without breaking the rhythm.
With or without a photo
No photo, in line with academic practice: a university application pack does not include one, and several committees explicitly ask for an anonymisable CV for the first round of review.
ATS readability
Few academic applications go through an ATS, but the template stays compatible: one column, a linear flow, standard headings and purely decorative rules. The one thing to know is the choice of writing skills as running text rather than as a list: extraction works, but a tool looking for isolated keywords will be less precise than with the tech template.
PDF and Word export
This is the template built for long documents: in PDF the pagination stays under control over four or five pages, and section headings never end up alone at the bottom of a page. In DOCX the file stays perfectly clean and editable, with no column or background to rebuild, which matters when a committee asks for a Word CV to complete.
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Minimal
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Ready to fill the Academic template?
Paste the posting, Jobtae rewrites your track record to answer it, then exports it in this template as PDF or Word.