Title card reading Resume, Cover Letter, References, with three overlapping sample pages that share the same name block at the top.
  • Title card reading Resume, Cover Letter, References, with three overlapping sample pages that share the same name block at the top.
  • A filled-in resume for a made-up customer support lead, with Profile, Work History for three jobs, Key Skills and Education.
  • A filled-in cover letter for a customer support manager role, with notes about naming the job and pointing to the references.
  • A references page with three blocks, each with a name, job title, company, phone, email and a line on how they know the applicant.
  • Three identical name and contact blocks stacked, each between two green rules, showing the same top on all three files.
  • The blank Resume with bracket prompts such as Your Full Name and Most Recent Job Title, and a note counting 82 prompts.
  • The sample resume beside monospace text a script read from the .docx, with the words in the same order as the page.
  • Two copies of the sample resume side by side, labeled US Letter and A4, drawn at the same scale.
  • A list of five files: two zips of three .docx files, two 3 page PDF previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and two fonts.

Resume and Cover Letter Set

Use this when one application asks for three pages that look like they belong together. The Resume, the Cover Letter and the References page start with the same name and contact lines, set between two rules. The Resume covers Profile, Work History for up to three jobs, Key Skills and Education. The letter's second paragraph prompts you for a figure taken from that resume, so the two do not disagree. The References page gives three blocks for contact details and your link to each person. Because the name block is body text and not a page header, it stays in the reading order. Across the three files are 82 bracket prompts. A made-up customer support lead fills the sample. No applicant tracking system was tested.

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In Word for Mac and LibreOffice each file stayed on one page and the text order matched. Longer text was not typed. Google Docs, Pages and ATS not tried.

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What's included

  • Application-Set-Templates-Letter.zip and Application-Set-Templates-A4.zip, each with the Resume, Cover Letter and References as separate .docx files
  • Application-Set-Sample-Preview-Letter.pdf and Application-Set-Sample-Preview-A4.pdf, 3 pages, all filled in for a made-up person
  • Start-Here-Samples-Fonts.zip: Start Here PDF, each filled sample as .docx in both sizes, the Carlito and Noto Serif font files and their licenses
A list of five files: two zips of three .docx files, two 3 page PDF previews and a zip with the Start Here PDF and two fonts.

How it works

  1. A filled-in resume for a made-up customer support lead, with Profile, Work History for three jobs, Key Skills and Education.
    The resume A filled-in resume with Profile, Work History, Key Skills and Education for a made-up person.
  2. A filled-in cover letter for a customer support manager role, with notes about naming the job and pointing to the references.
    The cover letter The matching letter, with notes on naming the job and pointing to your references.
  3. A references page with three blocks, each with a name, job title, company, phone, email and a line on how they know the applicant.
    The references page Three reference blocks with name, title, company, phone, email and one line on how you know each person.
  4. Three identical name and contact blocks stacked, each between two green rules, showing the same top on all three files.
    One top block The name and contact block shown three times, once per file, with the same rules and styles.
  5. The blank Resume with bracket prompts such as Your Full Name and Most Recent Job Title, and a note counting 82 prompts.
    The bracket prompts The blank Resume before anything is typed. A note says to copy its top two lines to the other files.

Compatibility and file formats

A .docx file with ordinary text, heading styles and one column. No tables, text boxes, macros or add-ins. Scripts opened it in LibreOffice 26.8 and read the text with docx2txt, macOS textutil and, after a PDF export, pdftotext. With its font swapped for Liberation Sans or Liberation Serif in LibreOffice, each document stayed on one page. A script also opened this file in Microsoft Word for Mac 16.114.3 and exported a PDF: it stayed on one page and the words came out in the same order as the file. Word used Calibri, Arial or Noto depending on the file and what it could fetch, and no fonts were installed for the test. That test did not type longer text. Google Docs and Pages have not been tried, and no ATS was tested.

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Questions

How do I keep the three pages matching?

Type your name and contact line into the Resume first, then copy those two lines to the top of the other two files.

I only have two references.

Delete the third block. The page has room to spare either way.

These are layouts with writing prompts. They give no career advice and cannot promise an interview or a job. The sample people, employers and numbers are made up. License: for your personal use only. No resale or sharing of this file. AI helped write the listing text, the how-to text, the prompts, the made-up sample entries and the code that builds this file. Scripts tested: the file structure (one column, no tables or text boxes, real heading styles), the reading order as text through docx2txt, textutil and pdftotext, the page count in LibreOffice, the page count with the font swapped, and the metadata. No person is claimed to have checked it unless stated here.