{Simple resume templates}
Skills Focus resume template
Skills Focus shows your skills as bold coloured tags right beside your experience, so a recruiter sees what you can do at a glance. Ideal when your skills are stronger than your job history.
- Colour
- Purple
- Layout
- Two columns
- Photo
- No photo
- Format
- A4 PDF
- Price
- Free
Best for
- Graduates and first jobs
- Career changers
- Freelancers
- Bootcamp and certificate holders
In the design
- Skills as coloured tags
- Plum accents
- Experience timeline
- No photo
Tips for the Skills Focus layout
- Use the sidebar for short items
- Skills Focus has a side column: keep contact details, skills, languages and certificates there, and give your experience the main column.
- No photo needed
- Skills Focus has no photo spot, which suits the US, UK, Canada and Australia, where most employers prefer resumes without photos.
- Safe for application portals
- A clean layout like this is read correctly by applicant tracking systems, so it's the right choice for big companies' careers sites.
- Keep it to one page
- Under ten years of experience, one page is plenty. Trim older roles to a line each before shrinking the font.
{How it works}
Make Skills Focus yours in minutes.
- 1
Pick a design
Choose any of our 28 templates. You can switch later without retyping a word.
- 2
We fill it in
Your name, experience, education and skills come straight from your profile.
- 3
Make it yours
Edit the text, move or restyle anything, change colours and fonts on the page.
- 4
Download the PDF
A crisp A4 PDF with real, selectable text that application systems can read.
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Is the Skills Focus resume template free?
Yes. Sign up free, choose Skills Focus and your details are filled in from your profile. Edit it online and download it as a PDF.
Is Skills Focus ATS-friendly?
Yes. Skills Focus is a clean layout with a real text layer in the PDF, so applicant tracking systems read it correctly.
Can I use Skills Focus without a photo?
Skills Focus doesn't use a photo at all, so there's nothing to leave out.
Can I change the colours and fonts?
Yes. Recolour, restyle or move any element of Skills Focus, change the fonts, and add or remove sections. Your content stays put while you experiment.