Most "minimalist" templates on design marketplaces are actually decorative — sidebars, icons, skill meters. Real minimalism is typographic: this template creates hierarchy with size, weight and spacing alone. The practical effect is skimmability — in eye-tracking terms, wider margins and looser line spacing reduce regression (re-reading), which is exactly what you want from a screener giving you seven seconds.

The centered header is the one stylistic liberty, and it's a parser-safe one: it remains plain body text at the top of the document, not a graphic header block.

Identical structural profile to our Classic: one column, standard headings, no tables or text boxes, contact details in the body. Minimalism actually helps here — there is simply less on the page for a parser to misinterpret. The monochrome slate palette also survives black-and-white printing and low-quality PDF re-rasterization without losing hierarchy.

Whitespace amplifies whatever it surrounds. Three strong bullets per role look deliberate and confident in this template; one thin bullet per role looks like you ran out of things to say. If your history is short, either write toward substance first or use Jake's, whose density flatters thinner content. Minimalist rewards people with strong material and the discipline to cut.