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Right Sidebar resume template: narrow right column, contact on top

Right Sidebar keeps the header and main story on the left and moves skills and other short items into a narrow column on the right, about 30 percent of the width. The main column leads with your experience, which keeps the order a conventional reader expects.

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Who the Right Sidebar template is best for

  • Professionals with a long skills or certifications list that would clutter the main column
  • Product, operations and marketing roles that mix experience with tools
  • Candidates who want two columns but still want experience read first

Less ideal for: Portal-only applications, where a single column is the safer layout.

ATS notes for the Right Sidebar layout

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

  • Two columns in every template of the family. Some parsers read a page across columns, which can interleave the sidebar with your experience, so check the exported file in the analyzer's ATS view.
  • Contact details stay in a top row rather than in the rail, so they are not at risk of being read after the body.

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
one inline line
Section titles
capitals
Header rule
Yes

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Two columns in every template of the family. Some parsers read a page across columns, which can interleave the sidebar with your experience, so check the exported file in the analyzer's ATS view. Contact details stay in a top row rather than in the rail, so they are not at risk of being read after the body. 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. Professionals with a long skills or certifications list that would clutter the main column. Product, operations and marketing roles that mix experience with tools. Candidates who want two columns but still want experience read first. Less ideal for: portal-only applications, where a single column is the safer layout.

They are riskier than one column, not automatically bad. A parser that reads left to right across the page can scramble the order. The way to know is to look at what a parser extracts from your own export; if the order is wrong, use a single-column family for that application.