Overline Two Column Resume Template
Overline Sidebar — Overline headings with a slim left sidebar for skills and contact icons. Modern, dense, and good for long careers.
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 Overline Sidebar template is built
- Structure
- Two columns — left sidebar carrying Skills and Languages
- Header
- Ranged left, like a typed letterhead
- Section headings
- Short accent rule above, not below
- 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 Overline Sidebar template suits
Consulting and strategy applications sent directly to a person, where the sidebar keeps skills visible beside your experience rather than buried below it.
What to watch out for
Skills and Languages sit in that sidebar, so a parser reads them interleaved with your roles. Use the Word download for portals.
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.
Overline Sidebar and applicant tracking systems
Overline Sidebar places Skills and Languages 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 Overline Sidebar template
Consulting and strategy hiring in the US, UK, Germany and the Gulf commonly runs through a named recruiter rather than a portal, which is the case this layout is built for. Where you are applying into an automated pipeline instead — most large Indian and US employers — the sidebar is a liability regardless of country.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Overline 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.
Overline Sidebar template questions
What ends up in the sidebar?
Skills and Languages. That keeps them beside your experience rather than buried below it, which is the point of the design — but it also means a parser reads them interleaved with your roles. Fine when a person opens the file.
Is the restraint here wasted on a sidebar layout?
Not at all — that combination is the reason it exists. Most sidebar templates lean decorative; this one pairs a sidebar with editorial overlines, which suits advisory work where you want structure without any suggestion of flourish.
Why does the skills sidebar use bars rather than a list?
Because a narrow column suits a compact visual measure better than wrapped text. The bars only appear for skills you have rated yourself — nothing is invented — and if you would rather not publish a proficiency level at all, leave the ratings blank and the section renders as a plain list.