Sterling resume template

Who the Sterling design suits

Sterling suits directors, vice presidents and senior managers in finance, consulting, law, operations and the public sector, where the reader is a board, a recruiter running a senior search or a hiring committee that expects a formal page. It also works for a senior individual contributor who wants weight without colour. For a design studio or an early-stage start-up it can read as stiff.

How the page is laid out

Sterling is a single column with a split header: a large Playfair Display name and the job title on the left, the contact lines stacked down the right with small icons, and a heavy navy rule closing it off. Section headings are letter-spaced navy capitals in Playfair, each resting on a thin full-width underline. Body text is Lato at a moderate density, and the navy accent stays in headings, rules and language dots.

How it reads to an ATS

Sterling reads top to bottom in one column, so a parser meets the summary, experience and education in the order written. The stacked contact block on the right is ordinary selectable text, though a few older parsers treat a split header as a second column; paste the PDF text into a plain editor to confirm name, email and phone come first. There is no photo, which suits the US, UK and Canada.

Everything on this design can be changed

The picture is a starting point, not a fixed layout. Open the design and change any of this in the editor, with your own words on the page as you do; nothing needs retyping.

• Colours: the accent, heading, text, background and sidebar colours
• Fonts: heading, body and name typefaces, sizes, line height and letter spacing
• Header: photo or monogram on or off, the contact line’s style and whether it sits under, beside or above the name, or in the sidebar
• Section headings: rule, band, side heading and more, for every section at once or one at a time, with an optional icon
• Dates: at the right edge, before the entry, beside the title or in the company line
• Language levels, skill badges and link style
• One or two columns, the sidebar width, section order and which sections appear
• Spacing, margins and page size (A4 or US Letter), and Magic fit to keep it to one, two or three pages
• Switch to any of the other 74 designs at any time; your content comes with you

Résumé examples in the Sterling design

• Senior Stress Engineer resume example