Left Portrait Column Resume Template
Studio — Portrait bleeding down the left column, filled headings and skills shown as meters.
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 Studio template is built
- Structure
- Two columns — left sidebar carrying Skills, Languages and Certifications
- Header
- Centred name, contact line beneath
- Section headings
- Reversed out of an accent bar
- Spacing
- Balanced, the default
- Skills
- Meters for rated skills only; never an invented level
- Photo
- Optional — full-width in the sidebar, off unless you add one
- Detailing
- small icons beside email, phone and location.
Who the Studio template suits
Design studios and agencies, where a centred header over a sidebar is the expected portfolio-resume shape.
What to watch out for
Centred header, filled headings, sidebar and photo is everything at once. It needs disciplined, short content.
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.
Studio and applicant tracking systems
Studio 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 Studio template
Design studios and agencies in Europe and Latin America expect both the portfolio-resume shape and the photograph. For US, UK and Australian studios, remove the photo — the centred sidebar layout itself is well understood in agency hiring everywhere.
Using this template
- Open “Use this template” above — the builder starts with Studio 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.
Studio template questions
This has a lot going on — is that intentional?
Yes, and it sets a condition: centred header, filled headings, sidebar and photograph together demand disciplined, short content. With one-line bullets and a tight summary it reads as art-directed; with dense paragraphs it reads as cluttered.
Should a designer send a resume or a portfolio?
Both, and they do different jobs. The portfolio proves the work; the resume gives context, scale and sequence that images cannot. Link the portfolio prominently from the contact block — this layout is designed to sit alongside one, not to replace it.
Is a full-height portrait column too much for most roles?
For most corporate roles, yes. It is built for creative, hospitality, front-of-house and personal-brand applications where the person is part of the proposition. Where a photograph is not expected at all, the column can carry skills alone, though it remains a two-column layout.