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Why numbered sections and double rules
Numbering makes the document's structure legible before anyone reads a word: four sections, in this order. On a technical resume — where a reader is looking for a specific thing rather than reading top to bottom — that ordering cue is worth more than a decorative flourish would be.
The double rule is the same idea. It is thin enough not to shout, but it reads as a deliberate drafting convention rather than a default underline, which is what keeps the page from looking like a Word document with a border switched on.
Where Blueprint is wrong
The frame is a real commitment. It runs at the sheet edge, so a printer that enforces its own margins will crop or shrink it, and the design is worth less without it — send the PDF. The numbering also assumes your sections stay in a sensible order; a resume with nine sections numbered to 09 starts to look like a form.
Who the Blueprint template is for
Great fit
- Engineers, architects, drafters and technical operations roles
- Anyone whose work is judged on precision and wants the page to say so
- Applicants sending PDFs — where the frame and rules survive exactly
Look elsewhere if
- Creative and client-facing roles where the drafting look reads as cold
- Anyone printing on office equipment that enforces its own page margins (the frame gets cropped)
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