GetJobAI Resume Template

Typst resume template with three visual styles. ATS compatibility first, aesthetics second.

Requires typst 0.13+ (developed on 0.14.2).

Files

File	Purpose
template.typ	Main deliverable — exports resume(data)
tests/*.typ	Self-contained test files; each imports template.typ and calls resume(data)

template.typ is a library: it exports a single resume(data) function. Test files in tests/ are the entry points for local dev. In production the Export Service (and typst.ts) calls resume(data) directly with data from resumes.parsed_data JSONB.

Style priority: --input style=X > data.style > "professional". The Export Service sets data.style; the CLI --input flag overrides it.

Styles

Style	Font	Accent	Target
professional (default)	Libertinus Serif	Navy #1a3a5c	Corporate, Consulting
minimal	New Computer Modern	Black	Academic, Research
technical	JetBrains Mono	Steel #005f87	Engineering, Open-Source

Usage

Test files are the entry points. Compile with --root . so Typst can resolve ../template.typ:

# Compile a specific test file
typst compile --root . tests/default.typ pdf/default.pdf

# Override style at the CLI (overrides data.style in the file)
typst compile --root . tests/default.typ pdf/default.pdf --input style=minimal

# Watch
typst watch --root . tests/default.typ pdf/default.pdf

Or use the Justfile:

just compile tests/default.typ # compile one file
just watch tests/carpenter.typ # watch one file (defaults to tests/default.typ)
just tests                     # compile all tests/*.typ
just check                     # compile all + pdftotext -layout on each
just clean                     # rm -rf pdf/

What's Been Done

ATS parsing:

• Single-column layout throughout — no multi-column, tables, or floating objects
• h(1fr) for right-aligned dates: looks two-column visually, but is a single text stream in the PDF (verified with pdftotext -layout)
• Contact info in the document body, not in PDF header/footer regions (parsers often skip those)
• Standard section names: Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications, Languages, Projects
• box() around contact URLs prevents mid-path line breaks (github.com/ + newline + janedoe)
• No icon glyphs — plain Unicode separators only
• Fonts are embedded by default (Typst guarantees this); Libertinus Serif and JetBrains Mono both cover the Cyrillic Unicode block for Cyrillic institution names

Data handling:

• All contact fields except name are optional and omit cleanly
• Education grade is a free-form string — supports "5.0 / 5.0" (Ukrainian 5-point), "1.3 (DE)" (German inverted scale), "94 / 100", etc.
• Experience company and title are optional — omit both for career gap entries
• hide: true on any experience or education entry suppresses it without removing it from the data (useful for per-application tailoring in the diff view)
• Bullet points are Typst content blocks [like this], so inline *bold* works naturally for tech keyword highlighting

Localisation:

• Section headings are overridable per-resume via data.headings — pass any subset; unset keys fall back to English defaults
• Sample data uses MM.YYYY date format
• Language levels render as full CEFR text ("Elementary (A2)") rather than bare codes — A1/B1/C1 are also German driving licence categories, bare codes are ambiguous

Diff view:

• #diff-added[…] and #diff-deleted[…] are defined as green-underline / red-strikethrough — no-ops unless a diff tool injects them, compatible with typdiff marker style

What's not Included

• Colour toggle — no flag to strip accent colours for a plain-black ATS submission; all three styles render in colour
• Photo field — not planned for MVP; the Export Service has no image pipeline
• Single-page enforcement — no hard clip at page 1; content overflows naturally (correct for German CVs, which expect 2–3 pages)
• Formal ATS testing — pdftotext -layout passes cleanly; ATS tests pass with at least 80/100 with the other 20 points being subtracted for contents.

Known quirk: In the professional style, pdftotext without -layout may split "Jane Doe" across two lines due to the large bold font's word spacing. With -layout (and in real ATS parsers that read the PDF content stream directly) it's a single text run and parses correctly.

Data Schema

#let data = (
  style: "minimal",   // optional — "professional" | "minimal" | "technical"
  headings: (         // optional — override any subset of section headings
    summary: "...",
    experience: "...",
    education: "...",
    skills: "...",
    certifications: "...",
    projects: "...",
    languages: "...",
  ),
  contact: (
    name: "...",      // required
    email: "...",     // optional
    phone: "...",     // optional
    location: "...",  // optional — metro area, not street address
    linkedin: "...",  // optional — without https://
    github: "...",    // optional — without https://
  ),
  summary: [...],     // optional — Typst content block

  experience: (
    (
      company: "...", // optional — omit for gap entries
      title: "...",   // optional
      dates: "MM.YYYY – MM.YYYY",
      location: "...", // optional
      bullets: (
        [Bullet text with optional inline *bold*.],
      ),
      hide: false, // optional — suppresses entry when true
    ),
  ),

  education: (
    (
      institution: "...",
      degree: "...",
      dates: "MM.YYYY – MM.YYYY",
      location: "...", // optional
      grade: "...",    // optional — free-form string
      hide: false,     // optional
    ),
  ),

  skills: (
    (category: "...", items: ("...", "...")),
  ),

  certifications: (
    (name: "...", issuer: "...", date: "MM.YYYY"),
  ),

  languages: (
    // level: full CEFR text preferred — "Native", "Professional Working (C1)", etc.
    (name: "...", level: "..."),
  ),

  projects: (
    (name: "...", description: [...], url: "..."),  // url optional, without https://
  ),
)

Planned

• Colour toggle: add a monochrome variant; wrap accent colors in a helper if monochrome { black } else { theme.accent }. Useful for ATS submissions where colour can confuse older parsers.
• Affinda smoke test in CI: Affinda has a free tier (50 req/month) with a REST API — piping resume.pdf through it produces structured JSON that can catch extraction regressions automatically.
• German headings: a --input lang=de input could swap section titles; should map them in a dict ("Experience": "Berufserfahrung", …) keyed by the lang input.
• Photo field: render an optional contact.photo path as a right-floated image at the top of the contact block. Verify the text stream order is unaffected before shipping.

ATS Extraction Check

pdftotext -layout pdf/default.pdf -
# or run all at once:
just check

All styles produce clean linear output: section headings in order, dates on the same line as company names, no scrambled text.

Credits

Structure and spacing approach inspired by:

• clickworthy-resume by Abdullah Hendy (MIT)
• guided-resume-starter-cgc (MIT)