About this template
The ATS Step Ladder template offers an Outfit layout with pink numbered badges that materialise each step of the professional trajectory, in a graduate-friendly, career-change narrative register. The badges are CSS spans with circular border-radius and background-color — their content remains text indexable by ATS. Compatible with Workday, Greenhouse, Lever and the ATS used by graduate programmes and career-change tracks.
Who is it for?
It suits new graduates (graduate programmes at Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Bain, BCG, EY, PwC, Deloitte, KPMG, IBM, Accenture, Microsoft LEAP, Google APM), career-changers (bootcamps Lambda School, App Academy, General Assembly, Hack Reactor, Flatiron School, Springboard, Galvanize), profiles transitioning to tech or data, and post-college service applicants (Teach for America, Peace Corps, AmeriCorps).
How to use it
Structure the document in numbered steps that tell the trajectory: 01. Initial degree, 02. First experiences (internships, co-ops), 03. Pivot or bootcamp, 04. First professional projects, 05. Target position. For graduates, mention internships (company, mission, duration, deliverable) and notable academic projects. For career-changers, list bootcamps attended (with dates), certifications and personal projects published (GitHub, portfolio, side projects, Product Hunt launches).
Frequently asked questions
Do the step badges break ATS parsing?
No. The badges are HTML spans with border-radius: 50% and background-color applied via CSS — their content ("01", "02", "03") remains extractable as text by every ATS. Workday (graduate programmes at Goldman, McKinsey, Bain), Greenhouse (Stripe new grad, Datadog university), Lever (early-career tracks) and Workable parse this template without any incident.
Compatible with graduate programme and career-change ATS?
Yes. Workday (Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Bain, IBM, Accenture, Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG), Cornerstone (Microsoft LEAP, Google APM), Greenhouse (scale-up new grad programmes) and SmartRecruiters (career-change platforms) parse this template without incident. Bootcamp names (Lambda School, App Academy, General Assembly, Hack Reactor, Flatiron) are indexed as keywords.
Suitable for new graduates and career-changers?
Yes, that is its primary target. The step register tells a trajectory — useful when the path is non-linear and needs narrating. For new graduates, mention internships, capstone project and notable academic work. For career-changers, list bootcamps with dates, personal projects published (GitHub, Behance, Product Hunt) and certifying MOOCs (Coursera, edX, Udacity Nanodegrees).
