Project Manager Resume Template — ATS CV for PMP, PRINCE2 and Agile
A recruiter reads forty project manager resumes in a morning. Thirty-nine of them describe duties: “responsible for managing project timelines and stakeholder communication”.
The ones that get called describe size and outcome — what the budget was, how many projects ran at once, what the date was and what it became. These files are built to make those numbers unavoidable: every bullet prompt asks you for one.
What is in it
- Project manager (.docx) — the experienced layout, one to two pages. Summary, core skills, experience, certifications, tools, education.
- Coordinator to PM (.docx) — the career-change layout, one page. Certifications move near the top where they do the most work when you do not yet have the job title, and a Project Experience section sits above employment for the projects you ran whatever they were called at the time. A short work history keeps the dates unbroken.
- Start Here guide (.pdf) — which file is yours, the five numbers to find before you open anything, and a grouped project management keyword list.
- Plain text version (.txt) — for portals that strip formatting.
Every bullet asks for scale
Budget, headcount, concurrent projects, sites, users, vendors, variance to baseline. “Delivered a CRM migration” is a sentence; “delivered a CRM migration for 1,400 users across four sites, eleven days ahead of a nine-month baseline” is a reason to call you.
Certifications where they get read
PMP, PRINCE2, Agile and Scrum credentials sit as plain text in their own block rather than inside a sentence, because a filter searching for “PRINCE2” should find it in the first pass and not the third.
What you need
Microsoft Word, Google Docs, Pages or LibreOffice. No design app and no subscription.
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Would you rather I rewrote it for you?
These are templates you fill in yourself. If you would rather hand the whole thing over, the ATS Resume Rewrite is made to order and comes back within 48 hours.
The other resume and CV templates are on the ATS Resume & CV Templates page.