Minimal resume templates

Minimal templates strip the page back to type and space. No rules, no shading, no sidebar, no accent colour doing decorative work - just clear headings and well-set body text. This sounds like a stylistic choice and is mostly a practical one: when you have one page of experience, a busy layout makes the page look emptier, not fuller. These suit first resumes, early-career applications, career changers whose relevant experience is short, and anyone whose content is strong enough that the page does not need help. They are also the most reliable group to paste into an application portal that strips formatting, because there is very little formatting to lose. If you have fifteen years to fit on the page, the professional or executive groups will hold it more comfortably.