Modern · Two columns · ATS 4/5
Modern Corporate CV template
A dark masthead over a hairline-split body — structure without a coloured sidebar.
Modern is the family to reach for when you have no strong signal about a company’s house style: current spacing, one accent colour, and nothing a hiring manager would have to interpret. The split page and the photograph together make it feel designed rather than typed — appropriate when a person, not a portal, opens the file first.
Live preview of the Modern Corporate template, rendered at full page size with an example CV. The preview is the same code that generates your PDF.
The design
About the Modern Corporate layout
Who it’s for
The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.
- Finance, consulting and legal applicants
- Managers presenting a long, dated career
- Internal promotion and secondment applications
Key features
What is actually different about this template on the page.
- Full-width dark header with contact grid
- Hairline-divided 63/37 body, no colour block
- Date-gutter experience and education
- Skills, languages and credentials in the aside
- Accent square section markers
ATS score 4/5 · Strong
How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system
It scores 4 out of 5, which is high for a split page. The main column carries the whole career narrative, so even a parser that mishandles the sidebar recovers the part that matters most.
Skills, languages and certifications sit in the side column, so those are the entries most likely to move in the extracted text; experience and education stay in the wide column and stay in sequence.
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.
A single column parses more reliably than two, in every system we have tested against. If the application goes through a portal you do not recognise, or the employer is large enough to screen automatically, send a one-column version instead — the ATS CV templates are built for that job, and your content moves across without being retyped.
- Reading order
- Two blocks
- 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 Modern Corporate is the right answer to
A specialist role with a long requirements list
The advert lists fourteen technologies or six certifications and you have most of them. The side column takes that inventory off the main narrative so a reviewer can tick it off in one glance. Where it earns its keep: Finance, consulting and legal applicants.
A steady progression
Moving skills, tools and languages into the side column keeps the main narrative about outcomes, which is what you want when your experience is strong but your skills list is long enough to crowd it out.
A personal introduction
Following up a conference conversation or a warm introduction, a face on the page reconnects your name to the person the reader met. Turn it off again for the portal version and nothing else about the document changes. If the employer asks for a document without one, the photo toggle in the editor removes it and Modern Corporate re-balances the header on its own.
Make it yours
Customising Modern Corporate
Accent colour
Modern Corporate ships with #0f4c81 as its accent. The accent drives headings, rules and any highlighted detail. A deep navy, a slate or a saturated brand colour all hold up — the hierarchy does not depend on the hue, so choosing is a taste decision rather than a legibility one.
Fonts and heading style
A humanist or geometric sans throughout gives the intended look. Setting a serif for headings only is the one substitution that changes the personality without breaking the spacing. 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
Density is yours to set. Because the side column is narrower, drop the type size a notch before you reduce margins — long certification names are the first thing to wrap awkwardly on a two-column page.
Sections and order
Summary, experience, education and skills carry the weight. Projects and certifications drop in without upsetting the rhythm, and anything you are not using can be hidden rather than left empty. 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.
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