Two Column
A modern two-column layout with your skills shown as pill tags in the side rail. Packs more into one page, great for sales, marketing, and operations resumes.
Use this templateTwo-Column Resume Templates
Sidebar and two-column layouts that fit more on one page: skills, links, and contact details in the rail, your experience front and center.
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A two-column resume solves a real problem: you have more relevant material than a single column fits on one page. Moving skills, tools, languages, and contact details into a side rail frees the main column for the experience bullets that actually win interviews, and the visual structure helps a recruiter scan the whole page in seconds.
The trade-off is ATS parsing. Simple, well-built two-column layouts like these parse far better than table-based designs from word processors, but if you are submitting into a strict corporate portal, consider one of our ATS-friendly single-column templates instead. When a human reads the file first, a two-column design is often the stronger impression.
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Sidebar
A left-sidebar design in royal navy that keeps skills, links, and contact details in their own rail. A strong pick for tech, marketing, and creative roles.
Use this templateCascade
Our flagship designed look: a bold emerald sidebar with your name reversed out in white. Distinctive and confident, a strong pick for tech, marketing, and sales candidates.
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A photo-forward sidebar template in deep teal with a large headshot at the top of the rail. A favorite for client-facing roles across sales, hospitality, and healthcare.
Use this templateAria
A graphite solid rail with a photo and disciplined typography. Serious and structured, a good match for finance, operations, and senior sales roles.
Use this templateIris
A plum-accented sidebar design with a headshot. Distinctive without being loud, picked most by designers, marketers, and tech candidates who want personality.
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A teal two-column layout that supports a photo. Dense and technical-friendly, a strong choice for tech, marketing, and operations candidates with a lot to show.
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Are two-column resumes okay for ATS?
Usually, if they are built properly. These templates use real text in a clean structure rather than invisible tables, which is what breaks most home-made two-column resumes. That said, single-column layouts are still the most reliably parsed, so for large-company portals we recommend a template from our ATS-friendly page.
What should go in the sidebar of a two-column resume?
Short, scannable items: skills, tools, certifications, languages, links, and contact details. Keep full sentences and achievement bullets in the main column where recruiters expect to read them. If your sidebar is filling up with paragraphs, the content belongs in the main column instead.
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