Nordic resume template
An airy DM Sans grid, small-caps section titles, a cool blue. Scandinavian in spirit: clear, calm, functional.
Free, no credit card.
- When to pick it
- A good middle ground when you want a designed resume that anyone can read, including outside your field.
- Industries
- Product · Startups · Engineering · Education
Who this template is for
This template is the right middle ground when you want a visibly designed resume that anyone can read, including outside your field. Product, startups, engineering, education: places that appreciate care without expecting a graphic demonstration. It is often the best choice for an application abroad, particularly in Northern Europe and the Netherlands, where restraint is the convention. It works as well for a junior profile as for a fifteen-year career.
How the layout is built
The header stacks your name, the target role and a contact line, then closes on a horizontal rule that cleanly separates identity from content. The body is in one column, with section headings in letter-spaced small caps: discreet but findable. Each experience entry aligns the role on the left and the dates on the right, a meta line gathers the company and the location, then the bullets follow. The type is DM Sans, a very open geometric sans, and the cool blue serves only the rule and the small caps.
With or without a photo
No photo, which is consistent with the markets this template targets first: in the Nordic countries as in the Netherlands or the UK, a resume with a portrait is unusual at best. For an application where a photo is expected, Modern offers a neighbouring aesthetic with a header designed for one.
ATS readability
The template is among the easiest in the catalogue to parse: one column, a decorative rule with no text, and section headings whose small caps come from the typography rather than from upper-casing the content, which preserves the original wording. The right-aligned dates come from spacing, not from a table.
PDF and Word export
The PDF keeps the fineness of the rule and the letter-spacing of the small caps, which carry the template’s whole character. In DOCX the rendering stays very close: no column and no background to rebuild, only a rule that becomes a paragraph border. With the classic and the minimalist, it is one of the three templates you can send in Word with no second thoughts.
Closest templates
If this one is not quite right, these three play in the same register.
All resume templates
Minimal
Plenty of white space, body text in Inter and headings in EB Garamond. Nothing else: the layout steps back so the content can breathe.
Modern
A two-column header with a photo, a midnight-blue accent and Raleway throughout. Contemporary without being loud.
Tech
Fira Code monospace for headings, skills as tags and a terminal green. This resume speaks the language of engineering teams.
Ready to fill the Nordic template?
Paste the posting, Jobtae rewrites your track record to answer it, then exports it in this template as PDF or Word.