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Canva ATS Tips

How to get your resume past Canva's Applicant Tracking System and into the hands of a recruiter.

Which ATS does Canva use?

Canva uses Greenhouse as their Applicant Tracking System. This means your resume will be parsed and scored by Greenhouse's algorithms before a human ever sees it.

Application Tips for Canva

Canva uses Greenhouse. They value people who want to empower the world to design.

Highlight experience building user-friendly creative tools, marketplaces, or collaboration platforms.

Canva is based in Sydney but has global teams — show experience with distributed collaboration.

Quantify user impact: "new template engine increased user design output by 50% and reduced time-to-create by 40%."

Show passion for democratizing design — Canva wants to make design accessible to everyone, not just professionals.

Keywords That Resonate at Canva

These terms reflect Canva's culture and values. Naturally weaving them into your resume and cover letter signals cultural fit.

empower the world to designbe a force for goodset crazy big goalsmake complex things simplebe a good humanpursue excellence

General ATS Formatting Rules

  • ✓Use a clean, single-column layout — multi-column formats confuse most ATS parsers.
  • ✓Stick to standard section headings: Experience, Education, Skills, Certifications.
  • ✓Avoid images, tables, text boxes, and headers/footers — these are often stripped.
  • ✓Submit as PDF unless the job posting specifically requests .docx.
  • ✓Match keywords from the job description exactly — ATS scores keyword overlap.

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