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Corporate · Single column · ATS 5/5

Business Professional CV template

A split header over a solid accent rule, then plain single-column text.

Corporate templates are built for a reader who sees a hundred CVs a week and is looking for evidence: numbers, scope, budget, headcount, in that order. One column and no portrait: the plainest structure a CV can have, and the one that travels furthest across markets.

Live preview of the Business Professional template, rendered at full page size with an example CV. The preview is the same code that generates your PDF.

The design

About the Business Professional layout

Business Professional sets your name and title on the left of the header with contact details right-aligned across two lines, then separates the header from the body with one solid accent rule the full width of the page. Everything below that rule is deliberately ordinary: a single column, bold accent headings with no underlines, and skills written out as comma-separated lists rather than drawn as bars — which is the form applicant tracking systems index most reliably.

Who it’s for

The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.

  • Corporate roles applied for through online portals
  • Operations, HR and finance professionals
  • Anyone whose CV is screened by software before a person reads it

Key features

What is actually different about this template on the page.

  • Split header with a two-line contact block
  • Full-width 4px accent rule
  • Rule-free accent section headings
  • Comma-separated skill lists for maximum parsability

ATS score 5/5 · Excellent

How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system

Nothing in this layout has to be interpreted. Job titles, employers and dates are ordinary text in an ordinary order, which is what a 5 out of 5 actually means.

Headings are real headings and lists are real lists, so the boundaries between one role and the next survive extraction intact.

There is little left to fix here. If you want to see how the rest of the parser-safe range compares — and what a 5 out of 5 is actually measuring — the ATS CV templates page scores every layout on the same criteria.

Parsing checklistATS score 5 out of 5
Reading order
Single flow
Headings
Real text
Tables
None
Images
None
Selectable text
Yes

Scores are our own assessment of how a parser handles the layout — never a guarantee about one specific employer’s system.

In practice

Three situations Business Professional is the right answer to

Templates are chosen badly when they are chosen in the abstract. Here is what sending this one actually looks like.
Case 1

A high-volume application campaign

When you are sending thirty applications in a month, the document has to work unattended. Nothing here needs explaining, reformatting or defending, which is what makes it the version to keep as your default. Where it earns its keep: Corporate roles applied for through online portals.

Case 2

A promotion track

Achievements stay directly under the role they belong to, so a promotion track inside one employer reads as a single story rather than three disconnected entries — the thing internal-mobility and executive reviewers look for first.

Case 3

An anonymised or blind-screening process

Public bodies and larger employers increasingly strip identifying detail before review. A layout with no portrait slot survives that process unchanged, which is one less way for your CV to arrive looking damaged. Business Professional has no photo slot to remove, so the same file works in every market you send it to.

Make it yours

Customising Business Professional

The template sets the structure; everything inside it is yours. Colours, fonts, spacing, section order and paper size are all controls in the CV builder, and the preview updates as you change them — nothing is applied blind.

Accent colour

Business Professional ships with #1f3a5f as its accent. Keep the accent dark: navy, charcoal, oxblood or a deep green. A bright hue is the fastest way to undercut the seriousness that makes this layout work, and it is the first thing to look wrong when the page is printed in black and white.

Fonts and heading style

A neutral sans body with a heavier heading weight is the safe pairing. A transitional serif for headings is the alternative if the employer is an older institution rather than a modern corporate. Heading case — uppercase, capitalised or as typed — is a separate switch, and it changes the character of the page more than most people expect.

Spacing and density

Three sliders control density — type size, line height and the gap between sections — and on a one-column page each of them affects the whole document evenly, so fitting two pages into one is a matter of small adjustments rather than deletions.

Sections and order

Experience and achievements dominate; certifications and languages matter in finance, banking and consulting so both are wired in. Interests and volunteering can be switched off entirely without leaving a gap. Every section can be renamed, reordered or hidden, and Pro adds custom sections for anything the standard set does not cover.

Paper size and export

A4 or US Letter, switched in one control, with the layout re-flowing to the new page rather than being scaled to fit. The PDF is generated from the same code you see in the preview, so what you approve on screen is what downloads.

Business Professional: common questions

Yes. It scores 5 out of 5 on our parsing checks: one column, standard headings, no tables, no text inside images and no icon fonts. An applicant tracking system reads the sections back in the order you arranged them.

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Start your CV with Business Professional

Open it with the example content already in place, replace it with your own, and download a PDF when it reads the way you want. Switching to another template later keeps every word you have written.

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