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Formatting Tips for Resumes and Cover Letters

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Applytoeducation Team

To ensure your resume and cover letter are properly uploaded and displayed, please follow these formatting guidelines:

Accepted File Formats
  • .pdf (recommended)
  • .doc
  • .docx
  • .jpeg
  • .jpg
  • .png

PDFs uploaded to the Resumes and Cover Letters page, or as custom documents in a job posting, must be 4MB or smaller.

Margin Guidelines

Documents with non-standard margins may have formatting issues upon upload.

Standard margins are applied to your documents when they are uploaded. Documents with non-standard margins may have formatting issues upon upload.

If the margins in your document have been altered, please save the original document as a PDF and then try re-uploading it.

If you are still experiencing formatting issues, please adjust the margins of your document to the standard:

  • 54 cm top and bottom
  • 17 cm left and right

If your file size is too big

Compress it using a free online tool like PDF Compressor.