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Corporate · Single column · ATS 4/5

Corporate Executive CV template

A double-ruled letterhead over a formal single column.

Restraint is the point. A corporate layout should make your results easy to find and give the reviewer nothing else to react to. It runs as one column with no photo, which is the combination most application portals and most UK, US and Irish employers prefer.

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

The design

About the Corporate Executive layout

Corporate Executive opens with a bordered letterhead: your name set in wide capitals inside a double rule, the title beneath it, and contact details on one centred line under a hairline. Below the letterhead the document is deliberately plain — a single column with small underlined section labels, the format boards, partners and search firms expect to receive. Nothing is hidden in a sidebar, so the printed page and the parsed text say the same thing in the same order.

Who it’s for

The readers and situations this layout was drawn for.

  • Board and C-suite candidates
  • Partners and practice leads in professional services
  • Finance, legal and public-sector roles with formal conventions

Key features

What is actually different about this template on the page.

  • Double-ruled letterhead header
  • Name set in wide-spaced capitals
  • Centred single-line contact row
  • Underlined section labels
  • Conservative single-column body

ATS score 4/5 · Strong

How this layout behaves in an applicant tracking system

It scores 4 out of 5: the reading order is linear and the text is real text, but there is enough visual structure that an unusually strict parser may flatten some of the presentation.

Because there is only one text column, an extractor never has to decide which block to read first — the page has exactly one reading order and it is the one you can see.

For most applications this is safe. Where the employer is very large, or the advert names a specific tracking system, a plainer single-column layout removes the remaining doubt: compare it against the ATS CV templates, which trade this template’s styling for the highest possible parsing score.

Parsing checklistATS score 4 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 Corporate Executive 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 referral or internal move

When someone inside the company is passing your CV on, it is read by colleagues rather than software. A little design signals care without costing you the parsing safety net. A typical example: Board and C-suite candidates.

Case 2

Scope and results

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 application where the work speaks

No photograph means the top third of the page belongs to your name, your title and your profile — the three things a reviewer uses to decide whether to keep reading past six seconds. Corporate Executive has no photo slot to remove, so the same file works in every market you send it to.

Make it yours

Customising Corporate Executive

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

Corporate Executive ships with #14304f 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

Font size, line height, section spacing and page margins are all sliders. On a single column they behave predictably: reduce section spacing first, margins second, and only then the type size — a CV set below 9.5pt starts to look like an attempt to hide its length.

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.

Corporate Executive: common questions

It scores 4 out of 5, which is fine for the overwhelming majority of applications. The content parses; only some of the presentation may be flattened on the way in.

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Start your CV with Corporate Executive

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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