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Left Sidebar resume template: solid left column with contact

Left Sidebar fills a solid column on the left with your name, contact details with icons and skills, and puts the main story to its right. The coloured column gives the page a strong, balanced look from across a desk.

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Who the Left Sidebar template is best for

  • Roles that value a confident visual impression, such as sales, events and marketing
  • Candidates with a lot of short, scannable items such as skills, languages and tools
  • Resumes shared as PDFs with people rather than through portals

Less ideal for: Applications that depend entirely on an automated parser.

ATS notes for the Left Sidebar layout

This is a two-column family, so reading order is the thing to verify.

  • Two columns in every template of the family, with contact details inside the sidebar. A parser that reads the main column first may reach your contact details late or not at all.
  • Confirm in the analyzer's ATS view that name, email and phone were all extracted; if not, choose a family that keeps contact details in a top row.

The only way to know what a parser reads from your own file is to look: export it, then run it through the ATS resume checker.

Layout specs

Read from the family's definition in the builder. Individual designs in the family vary in colour, font and detail.

Look
With a sidebar
Columns
Two
Body text
9.8 pt
Page margins
14 mm
Contact details
the sidebar
Section titles
capitals
Header rule
No

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Two columns in every template of the family, with contact details inside the sidebar. A parser that reads the main column first may reach your contact details late or not at all. Confirm in the analyzer's ATS view that name, email and phone were all extracted; if not, choose a family that keeps contact details in a top row. No template can promise a result with every employer system, so check the exported file in the analyzer's ATS view before you apply.

It sits in the "With a sidebar" look. Roles that value a confident visual impression, such as sales, events and marketing. Candidates with a lot of short, scannable items such as skills, languages and tools. Resumes shared as PDFs with people rather than through portals. Less ideal for: applications that depend entirely on an automated parser.

Because the contact fields are the ones every system needs. In this family they are in the rail, so they are the first thing to verify in the ATS view of your exported file.