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Two-column resume template

Two columns put your experience on the left and skills, education and certifications in a 30% sidebar. It fits noticeably more onto one page and puts skills where a human skims. The trade-off is reading order: some older ATS parsers read straight across both columns and interleave them.

ATS compatibility: Use with care

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What is in the layout

  • Main column for summary and experience, sidebar for skills, education and extras
  • Skills become a scannable list instead of a comma run
  • Built with CSS grid, so the PDF has real text in two flows, not a table or text boxes
  • Marked "use with care" for portals

Tips for this template

  • Use this version for email, networking and career fairs; keep a Simple copy for portals.
  • Put nothing essential only in the sidebar; mention key skills in bullets too.
  • Check the reading order of your PDF by selecting all text and pasting it into a plain-text editor.

Best for: Emailing a PDF directly to a person, portfolios, networking.

See how a parser reads it in the resume layout explainer.

Maya Okafor

Operations Coordinator

maya.okafor@email.com(555) 214-8830Columbus, OHlinkedin.com/in/mayaokafor

Summary

Operations coordinator with 5 years in logistics and customer-facing roles. Known for cleaning up messy schedules, cutting order errors and training new staff so teams run without constant supervision.

Experience

Operations Coordinator, Brightline Supply Co.

Mar 2022 – Present

Columbus, OH

  • Rebuilt the weekly delivery schedule for 14 drivers, cutting late deliveries by 31% in six months
  • Introduced a two-step order check that reduced picking errors from 4.2% to 1.1%
  • Trained 9 new hires on the warehouse system using a checklist I wrote, now the team standard
  • Negotiated freight rates with 3 carriers, saving $48,000 a year

Customer Service Lead, Harbor Home Goods

Jun 2019 – Feb 2022

Dayton, OH

  • Led a team of 6 handling 250+ calls and emails a day with a 94% satisfaction score
  • Created reply templates that cut average handling time from 7 to 4 minutes
  • Resolved escalated complaints and flagged recurring product faults to the buying team

Sample content. Your details replace it in the builder.

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