Classic resume theme

Merit Scholarship

Education occupies the main opening position while awards and skills sit in a light left column. Use a small serif name and generous line spacing for short resumes.

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Style: Classic
Layout: Left sidebar
Colour: Blue
Used by: New
Made by: JSON Resume Team

Use Merit Scholarship

On jsonresume.org

In the editor, pick Merit Scholarship from the Theme menu and save. Your page at jsonresume.org/@you changes straight away.

Open the editor

No resume here yet? Start one in Merit Scholarship: upload the one you have or answer a few questions.

In your resume.json

Set the theme in meta, whether your resume lives here or in a GitHub gist:

resume.json

"meta": { "theme": "merit-scholarship" }

Try it on your resume first

Add ?theme=merit-scholarship to your link, like jsonresume.org/@you?theme=merit-scholarship. Nothing is saved.

Ask your AI assistant

With jsonresume.org connected, say “Switch my resume theme to Merit Scholarship.”

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