Modern CV template

A two-column CV with your contact details, skills and tools in a side band and your experience in the main column. It fits a lot on one page and looks current without graphics.

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Modern CV template: fictional example in the Modern design, page 1. Full text is available below.

Read the example as text

Priya Nair

Marketing Executive

Profile

Marketing executive with four years in B2B and charity marketing, running email, social and event campaigns from brief to report. Writes clear copy, builds simple dashboards and works closely with sales and fundraising teams. Looking for a marketing role with more ownership of campaign planning and budgets.

Experience

Marketing Executive Northfold Software, Manchester · May 2024–present

Plan and send a monthly email programme to 18,000 customers; raised the click rate from 2.1% to 3.4% by testing subject lines and shorter layouts.

Run the LinkedIn and webinar calendar with two product managers, writing the posts and landing pages.

Build a weekly campaign dashboard in Looker Studio for the sales director.

Marketing Assistant Canal Street Trust, Manchester · September 2022–April 2024

Coordinated the spring appeal across email, social media and print, working to a £6,000 budget.

Recruited and briefed 25 volunteers for two fundraising events.

Rewrote the volunteer pages on the website with the digital officer, cutting enquiry emails about the same questions.

Education

BA (Hons) Business and Marketing, 2:1 Pennine Metropolitan University · 2019–2022

A levels: Business, English Literature, Psychology St Anne's Sixth Form · 2019

Fictional example for a marketing executive. Every person and employer in it is invented; replace every detail with your own. Select the page to open it full size.

Before you use it

Two columns save space and look current, but some application systems read the side band before or after the main column, which can mix up your history. Email or hand this file to a person, and keep a Plain version for online portals.

Inside this example

Profile: 47 words here
Experience: 121 words here
Education: 25 words here
Skills: 20 words here
Tools: 18 words here
Languages: 6 words here

How to use this template

Put scannable facts in the side band

Contact details, skills, tools and languages are things a recruiter checks, not reads. The side band lets them find those in seconds and leaves the main column for what you did.

Keep the main column for results

Each job gets three or four bullets that start with what you did and end with what changed. Numbers such as a click rate or a budget make a line easy to believe.

Keep skills you can prove

Every skill in the side band should appear in a bullet on the right. If it does not, either add the evidence or take the skill out.

Send Plain to portals

Some application systems read two columns in the wrong order. When you apply through a portal, use the editor to switch this CV to the Plain design and upload that file.

If the employer asks for a particular file type, a page limit or an application form, do what they ask, even where this page suggests otherwise. CV format and file types explains the choices.

Help with your next edit

UK CV Format: Choose Your Layout and File Type CV Skills: Lists by Job and How to Prove Each One CV Work Experience: Turn Duties into Evidence