- Layout
- Single-column
- ATS
- ATS-safe
- Best for
- Minimalists and shorter resumes
- License
- MIT (resumake.io port)
The layout
- Single-column page, built to fit on one page
- Facts aligned into columns within each entry for fast skimming
- Hairline rules and generous white space
- Education → experience → projects → skills ordering
- Text-only, no graphics
Where it comes from
Caliper follows the McDowell format — the one-page, single-column résumé convention popularized by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, the ex-Google/Apple engineer behind Cracking the Coding Interview and CareerCup. It's the layout a generation of software candidates learned as “what a good résumé looks like.”
McDowell's key idea is fast skimmability: keep everything in one column, but align the facts — role, company, dates, location — into clean columns within each entry so a recruiter can scan them in seconds. (It's single-column on the page, not a two-column split.)
Our version comes by way of the open-source resumake.io port of the format, reworked with hairline rules and extra white space.
Adapted from the McDowell résumé format by Gayle Laakmann McDowell (via resumake.io) — MIT (resumake.io port).
How it parses
One column and plain text, so it parses cleanly. The “columns” are just aligned tab stops inside a single-column page, not a real two-column layout — parsers read it in order.