Numbered Two Column Resume Template
Numbered Sidebar — Numbered headings in the main column with skills and languages in a tinted sidebar. Two columns, so check your ATS score.
Available in multiple color accents
Click “Use this template” to customize colors, fonts, and section ordering.
- Ink Theme
- Navy Theme
- Teal Theme
- Burgundy Theme
- Bronze Theme
- Azure Theme
How the Numbered Sidebar template is built
- Structure
- Two columns — right sidebar carrying Skills, Languages and Certifications
- Header
- Ranged left, like a typed letterhead
- Section headings
- Counter before each heading — 01, 02, 03
- Spacing
- Balanced, the default
- Skills
- Meters for rated skills only; never an invented level
- Photo
- Not used
- Detailing
- small icons beside email, phone and location.
Who the Numbered Sidebar template suits
Design and creative portfolios read by a human, where the numbered sections and sidebar together give the page a deliberate editorial rhythm.
What to watch out for
Two columns plus counters is the least parser-friendly combination here. Skills, Languages and Certifications sit in the sidebar and interleave with your job history when extracted.
How much fits on one page
This is one of the higher-capacity layouts here. The sidebar absorbs skills and certifications that would otherwise eat into the main column, so a ten-to-fifteen year career usually still lands on one page.
Numbered Sidebar and applicant tracking systems
Numbered Sidebar places Skills, Languages and Certifications in a sidebar beside your experience. Parsers read straight across a page rather than down a column, so a skill from the sidebar can land in the middle of a sentence about your last job. That does not make the template unusable — it makes it a design for human readers. Send this one when a person opens your application directly, and download the Word version for anything that goes through a portal, because that export is always single column whichever template you picked.
Where in the world to send the Numbered Sidebar template
Send this to a person, not a portal, in any country. Beyond that it carries no regional risk of its own — but note that large-employer application portals are most entrenched in the US, India and the UK, which is exactly where a two-column layout costs you most.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Numbered Sidebar already selected.
- Type your details. Everything saves in your own browser and is never uploaded.
- Try the 20 colour themes and 21 font pairings from the Design panel — 420 combinations of this one layout.
- Download as PDF to keep this design, or as Word if you are applying through a job portal.
Numbered Sidebar template questions
Why is this the riskiest layout for ATS parsing?
It combines the two things parsers handle worst: a sidebar, which makes extraction order ambiguous, and heading counters, which add characters to every section label. Skills, Languages and Certifications sit in that sidebar and come out interleaved with your job history.
How do I apply through a portal with this design?
Download the Word version instead. It is always generated single column regardless of the layout you designed in, so you keep this design for direct email and still have a clean file for the portal.
Will the sidebar content be lost when I apply through a portal?
It can be, which is why this is not marked ATS-safe. A parser reading straight across the page may interleave sidebar text with the main column or drop it. Send this PDF to a named person and use the Word export for the portal — that export is single column whichever template you picked.