Modern Resume Template 2026
This clean, professional template is ATS-friendly and optimized for Nigerian employers. Simply replace the placeholder text with your information.
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━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [YOUR FULL NAME] [Phone Number] | [Email Address] | [LinkedIn URL] [Lagos, Nigeria] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Results-driven [Job Title] with [X] years of experience in [industry/field]. Proven track record of [key achievement]. Skilled in [skill 1], [skill 2], and [skill 3]. Seeking to leverage expertise in [area] to drive success at [Company Name]. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WORK EXPERIENCE [Job Title] [Company Name] | [City, Nigeria] | [Month Year] - [Month Year/Present] • Achieved [specific result] by implementing [action], resulting in [quantified impact] • Led [project/initiative] that improved [metric] by [percentage/number] • Collaborated with [team/department] to deliver [outcome] • Managed [responsibility] serving [number] clients/users [Previous Job Title] [Company Name] | [City, Nigeria] | [Month Year] - [Month Year] • Developed [solution/process] that reduced [problem] by [percentage] • Trained and mentored [number] junior team members • Increased [metric] from [before] to [after] through [action] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ EDUCATION [Degree] in [Field of Study] [University Name] | [City, Nigeria] | [Graduation Year] • CGPA: [X.XX]/[5.00] or [Class of Degree] • Relevant Coursework: [Course 1], [Course 2], [Course 3] NYSC: Completed [Year] | Certificate Number: [XXX] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS • [Certification Name] - [Issuing Organization] ([Year]) • [Certification Name] - [Issuing Organization] ([Year]) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SKILLS Technical: [Skill 1] • [Skill 2] • [Skill 3] • [Skill 4] Business: [Skill 1] • [Skill 2] • [Skill 3] Languages: English (Fluent) • [Other Language] (Conversational) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ REFERENCES Available upon request
How to Use This Template
- Replace all bracketed text with your actual information
- Use action verbs: Achieved, Led, Developed, Managed, Increased, Reduced
- Quantify achievements: Include numbers, percentages, and measurable results
- Tailor for each job: Match keywords from the job description
- Keep it concise: 1-2 pages maximum
Customization Tips
- If you're a fresh graduate with limited experience, expand the Education section with projects and coursework
- For tech roles, add a Projects section showcasing your portfolio
- For creative roles, add a Portfolio link in the header
- If applying to multinationals, ensure British English spelling
ATS Compliance Checklist
- ✓ Uses standard fonts (Arial, Calibri)
- ✓ Simple formatting with clear section headings
- ✓ No tables, text boxes, or graphics
- ✓ Bullet points for easy scanning
- ✓ Keywords from job descriptions