Round Photo Colour Block Resume Template
Portrait Pro — A round headshot beside a colour-blocked header, then one clean column. For markets and industries where a photo is expected.
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 Portrait Pro template is built
- Structure
- One column, top to bottom
- Header
- Full-bleed accent band, name reversed out in white
- Section headings
- Editorial thin-over-thick rule
- Spacing
- Balanced, the default
- Photo
- Optional — bordered round portrait, off unless you add one
- Detailing
- small icons beside email, phone and location and a larger name and extra breathing room throughout.
Who the Portrait Pro template suits
Markets where a photograph is expected — much of Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and parts of Asia — and client-facing roles where recognition matters.
What to watch out for
Never send this to the US, UK, Canada or Australia. Employers there routinely discard resumes carrying a photograph to avoid discrimination claims, and many applicant tracking systems strip the image and leave a gap.
How much fits on one page
This layout spends space deliberately, so it holds less than most. That works in your favour early in a career, where a densely packed page reads as padding — and against you after about a decade, when you may need the tighter text-size setting in the builder to stay on one page.
Portrait Pro and applicant tracking systems
Portrait Pro is a single column, which is the arrangement applicant tracking systems read most reliably. A parser walks the page top to bottom and gets your sections in the order you wrote them. Nothing about this template needs adjusting before you upload it to a job portal.
Where in the world to send the Portrait Pro template
This is the layout where region matters more than design. A photograph is standard practice in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Brazil, Mexico, the Gulf states and much of East Asia. It is actively harmful in the US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, where employers routinely discard photo CVs unread to avoid discrimination liability. Confirm the destination before you send it.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Portrait Pro 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.
Portrait Pro template questions
Which countries expect a photo on a CV?
Germany, Austria and Switzerland most strongly, followed by France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Belgium, much of Eastern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and parts of Asia. In Germany a Lebenslauf without a photo can still look incomplete to a traditional employer, though that convention is slowly softening.
Can I use this layout without the photo?
Yes — leave the photo field empty and the header closes up cleanly into a colour-block design. That gives you a version safe for the US and UK from the same template, which is the practical way to apply into both markets without maintaining two documents.
Should I use this if I am applying to the UK or the US?
No. The round portrait sits inside a colour block and cannot be removed without dismantling the design, and a photograph on a CV in the UK, US, Canada, Ireland or Australia routinely gets the application discarded on anti-discrimination grounds. Use it for markets where photographs are conventional, and pick Colour Block for the same look without a face.