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Spotlight resume template
A bold color banner with your photo. Confident and contemporary.
Who the Spotlight design suits
Spotlight suits event planners, brand ambassadors, hospitality and retail managers, trainers, presenters and creative freelancers who want a photo and a bold header without giving up a single, easy-to-read column. It works well in markets where a photo on a résumé is customary.
How the page is laid out
Spotlight opens with a violet-to-magenta gradient banner with rounded lower corners, carrying the name, title and contact row in white Poppins, with a round photo once a picture is added. One column runs below. Each heading has a short violet bar, an icon tile and violet capitals. Skill and project tags are small violet pills grouped by category, and languages use violet dots.
How it reads to an ATS
Spotlight is one column, which keeps parsing simple, and the banner text is real text at the top of the page. The round photo is an image and is skipped by parsers; turn it off for US, UK and Canadian applications. The gradient fill sits behind the text layer without changing it, so keywords in the pills still match.
Best for: Single column · Creative · Photo · Modern. Free to use, exports selectable text a résumé parser can read, and edits entirely in your browser — no account and no upload.
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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
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