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Catalyst resume template
Left-aligned header and teal accents. Experience comes first; no summary.
- Layout
- Single column
- Resumity ATS label
- Strict ATS
- Font
- IBM Plex Sans, embedded in the PDF
- Paper
- A4
- Colour
- Teal accent
- Exports
- PDF and DOCX, no watermark
- Price
- Free on every plan
In the builder, choose Catalyst from the template picker. The free plan includes all 7 templates and PDF and DOCX export.
What Catalyst looks like
- A large left-aligned name, with the contact details on one line under it and the job title below.
- Set in IBM Plex Sans; the other six templates use Inter.
- Teal uppercase section headings, each sitting on a full-width rule.
- Small square teal bullets.
- Section order: work experience, skills, projects, education.
Who it suits
Experienced people who want a recruiter to land on their latest job first, such as senior individual contributors and managers whose recent work carries the application.
Worth knowing before you pick it
- Catalyst does not print a summary paragraph. Its section order starts with an optional Performance Snapshot (a short list of highlights). The sample has none, so the page goes from the header straight to work experience. If you want a summary on the page, pick another template.
Catalyst parse test results
In our 9 October 2026 parse study we exported Catalyst PDFs of three synthetic resumes (a one-page mid-career designer, a two-page senior engineering manager and a one-page graduate) with the same exporter the editor uses, then read each PDF back with three open-source text extractors: pdf.js 4.10.38, pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00, pypdf 6.13.0. That makes 9 extractions of Catalyst PDFs.
| Extractor | Name, email and phone | Section headings | Bullets intact | Jobs in order | Bullets in order | Garbled characters |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | 3 of 3 runs | 12 of 12 | 26 of 26 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | 3 of 3 runs | 12 of 12 | 26 of 26 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | 3 of 3 runs | 12 of 12 | 26 of 26 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
| All three | 9 of 9 runs | 36 of 36 | 78 of 78 | 100% | 100% | 0 |
A bullet counts as intact when at least 95% of its four-word sequences appear in the extracted text. The sample PDF on this page is the mid-career file from the study, byte for byte.
What this does not show: we did not test commercial applicant tracking systems such as Workday, Greenhouse, Lever, iCIMS or Taleo. Each employer configures its own system, so no template can promise how a particular employer will read it. The test checks that the text comes out complete and in order, not whether a recruiter likes the layout. Method, limits and raw data.
About the sample files
The sample is a one-page resume for a mid-career product designer, with two jobs, one project and one degree. Catalyst prints its sections as Work experience, Skills, Projects, Education.
The DOCX is the same resume from the editor's Word export, so you can open it in Word or Google Docs and edit it. Word lays out text itself, so line breaks and spacing can differ slightly from the PDF.
