Colour Sidebar Photo Resume Template
Profile — Headshot at the top of a solid colour sidebar, with skills shown as pills. The most designed template here.
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 Profile template is built
- Structure
- Two columns — left sidebar carrying Skills, Languages and Certifications
- Header
- Ranged left, like a typed letterhead
- Section headings
- Full uppercase, undecorated
- Spacing
- Balanced, the default
- Skills
- Each skill in a rounded pill
- Photo
- Optional — bordered round portrait, off unless you add one
- Detailing
- small icons beside email, phone and location.
Who the Profile template suits
Client-facing roles in photo-expecting markets, where the sidebar keeps a portrait and your skills together.
What to watch out for
A photo and a sidebar stack two separate risks — regional convention and parser confusion. Worth it only when you know a person opens it.
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.
Profile and applicant tracking systems
Profile 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 Profile template
Photo-expecting markets and direct applications only. That means Southern and Central Europe, Latin America, the Gulf and much of Asia, sent to a named person. Two risks stack here — regional convention and parser confusion — so it is worth it only when you know a human opens the file.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Profile 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.
Profile template questions
Why is stacking a photo and a sidebar riskier than either alone?
They fail in different places. The photograph can have your CV discarded in the US, UK, Canada or Australia before it is read; the sidebar can have your skills scrambled by any portal parser. Neither mitigates the other, so you need both conditions to be safe.
Where should the portrait sit for a client-facing role?
In the sidebar, which is where this puts it — beside your skills rather than above your name. That keeps the header conventional and lets the reader take in your face and your capabilities together, which is the point for client-facing work.
Can I use this without a photograph?
Yes — the photo renders only if you supply one, and the coloured sidebar works perfectly well with just contact details and skills in it. That gives you a strong two-column look for markets where photographs are not welcome, though it remains a two-column layout for parsing purposes.