About the Cedar template
Cedar runs a band of the accent the full width of the head of the page, with the name centred in wide-spaced white capitals and the title in italic capitals beneath it, and no photo. Below it a narrow column on the left ranges everything against the gutter, right-aligned: the contact details with their icons trailing the text, a degree read one fact a line, the school, years and city each on their own, and the skills one a line. The wide column beside it reads from the gutter outward, and every heading in either column, one the writer adds included, is the same bold capitals in dark grey with no rule. A role opens on its title set larger in a normal weight, then the employer in grey, then the dates and city on one line divided by a slash, then its bullets. It suits an engineering director, a senior manager or anyone with a long history who wants one block of colour and a page that stays out of its own way.
Read the software engineer resume shown hereTheo Lindqvist’s resume in full, with notes on why each part works.How it is built
- A band of the accent the full width of the head of the page, the name centred in wide-spaced white capitals over the title in italic capitals
- A narrow left column ranged right against the gutter, its contact details with the icons trailing the text
- A degree read one fact a line down the narrow column: the degree, its field, the school, the years, the city
- Every heading the same bold dark capitals with no rule, in either column and on a section the writer adds
- A role opening on its title set larger in a normal weight, the employer in grey beneath, then the dates and city on one line divided by a slash
- Style
- Professional · Modern
- Best for
- Tech & Engineering · Business
- Career stage
- Mid Level · Senior / Executive
- Layout
- Two Column · Without Photo
- Photo
- No photo
Templates with a similar look
These share at least one style with Cedar, so they are the closest alternatives if the proportions here are not right for your history.
- HingeA one-column resume hung on a thin yellow rail, with bold capital labels in a left margin and a yellow disc wherever a section rule crosses the rail
- StrataA one-column resume in full-width grey and white bands, each section headed by a blue icon square over its label in a left margin
- FizzPink, pale blue and sand discs crowding the top right corner, and every heading a pale blue pill led by a pink icon square
- CypressA one-column serif resume with a round photo, the name in bold teal and teal headings centred between thin rules
- CloverThe name in two olive blocks and every heading opened by an olive square with a white plus, over two even columns
- CanaryA thin yellow band over a white page, a name underlined line by line, and a square photo laid over a drawn frame
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