Entry level resume template

Meridian prints skills directly after the summary and before work experience, so the tools a help desk posting names (Active Directory, the Microsoft 365 admin center, a ticketing system) are read before a work history of under a year. It uses grey rules and no colour, which keeps a short one-page resume looking finished rather than sparse.

Second choice: Leslie. Leslie prints work experience before skills; switch to it once your first job in the field has more to show than your tool list.

Meridian template details and test results

Meridian prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.

1. Professional Summary. Two or three lines: the job you hold or want, how long you have done it, and the credential that got you in. At entry level the summary can also connect an earlier, unrelated job to the new field, as the sample does with setting up devices in retail.
2. Skills. An entry-level reader checks this block early, so separate what you can do (password resets, imaging laptops) from the software you did it in. List a tool only if you have used it at work, in a course lab or in your own lab, because a phone screen will test it.
3. Work Experience. Every job, most recent first: a short history has no room for gaps. The current role gets four bullets with ticket volumes or turnaround times; the older job is retold in the language of the new one instead of a list of shelf and till duties.
4. Projects. A home lab, a course build or a volunteer setup shows skills your first employer has not handed you yet. One project with three concrete steps is enough, labelled honestly as personal work.
5. Education. A certificate program, diploma or partial degree with the finish date and three course names. Readers want to know the training exists; once you hold a job in the field, nobody asks for grades.
6. Certifications. If help desk postings near you ask for CompTIA A+ or a similar credential, show it twice: here with the issuer and year, and in the headline, because Meridian prints certifications near the end of the page.

The same content as the files above, so you can copy a line or compare it with your own.

Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.

• help desk
• Tier 1 support
• ticketing system
• Active Directory
• password resets
• Microsoft 365
• Windows 11
• device imaging
• troubleshooting
• remote support
• customer service
• knowledge base
• CompTIA A+

• Calling yourself an "IT professional with extensive experience" ten months into a first job. State the time plainly; entry-level roles are filled with people at exactly that stage.
• Deleting the earlier non-IT job. Without it the page shows a gap, and it is evidence that you can handle customers.
• Listing every programming language from an online course. A help desk reader wants the tools of the job, and padding hides the skills that matter.
• Stretching the page to two. A history of a year or two fits on one page with space left.

We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.

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1. CompTIA: CompTIA A+ certification (exact credential name; earned by passing two exams (Core 1 and Core 2); lists help desk support specialist as a target job)