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IT Professional CV template

A conventional corporate layout with an edge-to-edge contact strip under the header.

Engineering CVs fail in two directions — a keyword dump nobody reads, or a beautiful page with no stack on it. This family is drawn to give tooling, projects and open-source work somewhere honest to live. One column, with a place for a photograph that the layout closes up cleanly when you decide not to use one.

Live preview of the IT Professional template, rendered at full page size with an example CV. The preview is the same code that generates your PDF.

The design

About the IT Professional layout

IT Professional follows the layout corporate IT departments expect: your name on the left, a photo top right, and one tinted strip running edge to edge beneath them carrying every contact detail in a single line. Everything under that strip is a plain single column with chevron-marked headings and a hairline rule reaching to the page edge, so the structure is obvious to a reader skimming twenty applications and unambiguous to the parser that indexed them first. Skills sit in a three-column grid, which fits a long support or infrastructure toolset onto one page.

Who it’s for

The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.

  • IT support and service desk professionals
  • Systems, network and infrastructure administrators
  • Internal IT roles at large or regulated organisations

Key features

What is actually different about this template on the page.

  • Edge-to-edge tinted contact strip
  • Name left, photo top right
  • Chevron headings with a hairline rule to the margin
  • Three-column skills grid

ATS score 5/5 · Excellent

How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system

Everything on this page is text a parser can lift: real headings, one linear reading order, and no content that exists only as a graphic. It scores 5 out of 5 because there is nothing here for a parser to guess at.

Headings are real headings and lists are real lists, so the boundaries between one role and the next survive extraction intact.

The portrait is an image, so no parser reads it, and a handful of large employers’ systems flag documents that contain images at all. Switching the photo off in the editor takes one click and the layout closes up around it.

There is little left to fix here. If you want to see how the rest of the parser-safe range compares — and what a 5 out of 5 is actually measuring — the ATS CV templates page scores every layout on the same criteria.

Parsing checklistATS score 5 out of 5
Reading order
Single flow
Headings
Real text
Tables
None
Images
Photo only, optional
Selectable text
Yes

Scores are our own assessment of how a parser handles the layout — never a guarantee about one specific employer’s system.

In practice

Three situations IT Professional is the right answer to

Templates are chosen badly when they are chosen in the abstract. Here is what sending this one actually looks like.
Case 1

A public-sector or graduate scheme

Structured schemes score CVs against fixed criteria, often mechanically. A conventional document with conventional headings lets the assessor find each criterion where they expect it to be. The obvious case: IT support and service desk professionals.

Case 2

Stack and shipped work

A single flow suits a CV where each role needs three or four bullets of measurable impact, and where a hiring manager will read the projects section as carefully as the employment history.

Case 3

A client-facing role

Recruitment, hospitality, sales and account management all trade on presence, and a portrait does real work in those applications. The unusual part is having that portrait on a document this machine-readable. If the employer asks for a document without one, the photo toggle in the editor removes it and IT Professional re-balances the header on its own.

Make it yours

Customising IT Professional

The template sets the structure; everything inside it is yours. Colours, fonts, spacing, section order and paper size are all controls in the CV builder, and the preview updates as you change them — nothing is applied blind.

Accent colour

IT Professional ships with #1d4ed8 as its accent. Cool accents — indigo, teal, slate — suit the type of document. The accent is used at small sizes on labels and rules here, so anything too pale loses contrast against white; test it before you commit.

Fonts and heading style

A clean sans keeps library names, version numbers and acronyms legible at 10pt, which is where a technical CV is actually read. Decorative heading faces make a stack list harder to scan for no gain. Heading case — uppercase, capitalised or as typed — is a separate switch, and it changes the character of the page more than most people expect.

Spacing and density

Three sliders control density — type size, line height and the gap between sections — and on a one-column page each of them affects the whole document evenly, so fitting two pages into one is a matter of small adjustments rather than deletions.

Sections and order

Skills, projects and certifications matter as much as employment. Promote projects above experience if you are early-career, self-taught or changing track — the work is the evidence in all three cases. Every section can be renamed, reordered or hidden, and Pro adds custom sections for anything the standard set does not cover.

Photo

The portrait can be circular, rounded or square, and it can be switched off entirely — the header reflows rather than leaving a hole, so one CV serves both a market that expects a photograph and one that does not.

Paper size and export

Switch between A4 and US Letter and the document re-flows to the new page instead of being scaled into it. The exported PDF is rendered from the same component as the preview, so nothing shifts between the screen and the file.

IT Professional: common questions

Yes. It scores 5 out of 5 on our parsing checks: one column, standard headings, no tables, no text inside images and no icon fonts. An applicant tracking system reads the sections back in the order you arranged them.

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Start your CV with IT Professional

Open it with the example content already in place, replace it with your own, and download a PDF when it reads the way you want. Switching to another template later keeps every word you have written.

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