Nursing resume builder
Folio is a free nursing resume builder that surfaces the sections recruiters and nurse managers look for first, including your RN license, your BLS and ACLS certifications, and your clinical rotations, instead of burying them in a generic template. It scores the result against the applicant tracking systems hospitals use, so your resume parses cleanly and reaches a human. New-grad and experienced templates are both built in, and the PDF export is free.
Build your nursing resume free. Keep everything you make.
Surface your license, certs, and clinical rotations, then score the resume against the ATS hospitals use. Logging in takes an email, a Google account, or a passkey. Beta needs no card, and the PDF download is never paywalled.
What you get
Generic builders give you a sales-rep template and no place for a license number. Folio is built around the sections a nurse recruiter scans first, then scores the result against the real ATS.
Licenses
A dedicated licensure section surfaces your RN license, the issuing state, and your license number up top, where a nurse recruiter and a credentialing screen both expect it. No more wedging it into a summary line.
Certifications
List BLS, ACLS, PALS, NIHSS, and any specialty certifications with issuing body and expiration, in a structure both a human and an ATS can read. The credentials that gate a role are visible at a glance, not hidden in prose.
Clinicals
For new grads, clinical rotations are the experience, so Folio gives them a proper section: setting, unit, hours, and what you did. Experienced nurses get full work history instead, with the same clean structure.
Specialties
Tag your specialty and the units you have worked, from med-surg and telemetry to ICU, ED, and L&D. The resume reads as a nurse for a specific kind of role, not a generic candidate.
EHR
Epic, Cerner, Meditech, and the other EHR systems you have charted in are real, searchable skills that hospitals filter on. Folio gives them a place, so the keyword a recruiter searches matches what is on your resume.
ATS
Before a nurse manager reads a word, an applicant tracking system parses your resume. Folio scores yours for parseability, structure, and keyword coverage against the posting, then tells you exactly what to fix to get past the filter.
How it works
No blank page, no generic template, no guessing at the filter.
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Choose a new-grad template that leads with clinical rotations and certifications, or an experienced template that leads with work history. Both are built for nursing and both are free.
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Enter your RN license, BLS and ACLS certifications, clinical rotations or work history, specialties, and the EHR systems you charted in. Each goes in its own structured section.
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Run the ATS score, paste the job posting, and follow the specific fixes. You edit toward the filter hospitals use, so your resume parses cleanly and reaches a human.
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Export a clean, ATS-ready PDF to upload to a hospital system or email a recruiter. The download is free and yours, every time.
How it compares
Generic builders charge for the download and have no place for a license. Folio understands nursing sections, scores the ATS, and the export is genuinely free.
| Capability | Folio | Zety | Resume.io | Canva | Indeed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dedicated nursing sections | Licenses, certs, clinicals | Generic template | Generic template | Generic template | Generic fields |
| License and certification fields | Structured, with expiration | Free-text only | Free-text only | Free-text only | Free-text only |
| Clinical rotations section | Built for new grads | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered | Not offered |
| ATS score against a posting | Built in | Add-on checker | Separate tool | Not offered | Not offered |
| Free PDF export | Yes, always free | Paywalled download | Paid plan to export | Free PDF export | Free download |
Competitor behavior reflects each vendor published free and paid tiers and can change. The structured-field rows describe how each tool handles nursing credentials by default; most general builders use one free-text experience block rather than dedicated license and certification fields. Verify current terms on each vendor page before you decide.
Why it adds up
The pieces a nurse needs, in one free account.
$0
to export your PDF
no download paywall, ever
2
templates built in
new-grad and experienced
5
nursing sections
licenses, certs, clinicals, specialties, EHR
1
ATS score
against the posting you paste in
Why the filter matters
Most hospital systems route applications through an applicant tracking system before a human opens them. If the parser cannot find your RN license, your BLS and ACLS certifications, or the specialty the posting asks for, the resume can be filtered out before a nurse manager ever sees it. A pretty template that confuses the parser works against you, not for you.
Folio puts your credentials in structured sections the ATS can read, then scores the result against the specific posting so you know what to fix before you apply. New grads lead with clinical rotations and certifications; experienced nurses lead with work history and specialties. Either way, the export is a clean, ATS-ready PDF that is free to download, every time.
FAQ
Yes. The builder is free for the whole beta, and downloading the PDF is never paywalled. Build your resume, surface your license and certifications, score it against the ATS, and export the file with no card needed. If we add paid plans later, the resume and content you made remain yours.
Yes. The new-grad template leads with clinical rotations, certifications, and your RN license, because for a new graduate the clinical rotations are the experience. There is also an experienced template that leads with work history and specialties. Both are built for nursing and both are free.
Folio scores your resume against the applicant tracking systems hospitals use, checking parseability, structure, and keyword coverage against the posting you paste in, then gives you the exact fixes. Your license, certifications, and EHR systems sit in fields the parser can read. No tool guarantees a callback, but you stop guessing at the filter.
In dedicated structured sections, not buried in a summary line. Your RN license, issuing state, and number sit in a licensure section, and BLS, ACLS, PALS, and specialty certifications list with issuing body and expiration. Both a nurse recruiter and a credentialing screen find them where they expect to.
Yes. Clinical rotations get a proper section with setting, unit, hours, and responsibilities, which matters most for new grads. The EHR systems you charted in, like Epic, Cerner, and Meditech, are listed as searchable skills, so the keyword a recruiter filters on matches what is on your resume.
The AI reads what you enter and drafts the structure: summary, experience or clinicals, certifications, and skills. You read and edit every field, including your license number and certification dates. Nothing is submitted to a job, published, or sent on your behalf, so the resume is a draft you steer and approve before any recruiter sees it.
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