Highlight Blocks resume template
A free resume template with coloured section labels that make each block easy to scan. Single column underneath, and the PDF still carries real text.
A scaled preview of the layout. Your own content replaces the placeholder lines.
Who it suits
Consulting, product and client-facing roles, and any resume a reviewer will skim rather than read.
What it looks like
Each section heading sits in a small filled block in your accent colour. The blocks are backgrounds, so the heading text itself extracts normally.
When to pick something else
Printing in black and white flattens the blocks to grey. Accent Underline gives the same scannability with less ink.
Use the Highlight Blocks templateOpens the free builder with this layout selected. You can switch template at any point without retyping anything.
What makes this template ATS-safe
Every template on ATSVerse shares one structure, and only the styling changes. That structure is what applicant tracking software has to read:
- One column, top to bottom. No tables, no text boxes, no side panel that a parser could read across a line.
- Standard section headings. Experience, Education and Skills are labelled with the words parsers are trained on, not with creative alternatives.
- Contact details in the body. Never in a page header or footer, which many parsers skip.
- A real text PDF. The export is selectable text, not a flattened image, so the words can actually be extracted.
- A4 or US Letter. Switch page size without changing anything else.
ATSVerse is not affiliated with any employer or ATS vendor, and no template can promise how a particular employer's system will behave. What these rules remove is the common, avoidable ways a resume loses information on the way in.