Split: executive resume template
Name left, contact block right, tight sections. Fits fifteen years without shrinking type.
Split puts your name on the left and your contact block on the right, lines the two up along their bottom edge, and closes the header with a firm rule. The sections below are compact: small, widely spaced capitals over a hairline, tight line spacing and close-set entries. It was made for senior managers, heads of function and directors who have ten or fifteen years to show and will not drop to a tiny font to fit them.
- Audience
- Leadership · 10+ years
- Colour schemes
- Navy, Ink, Teal
- Photo slot
- No
- Paper
- A4 and US Letter
A director's resume in India often goes to a promoter, a search consultant or an interview panel who want the whole career in front of them, and Split gives them more of it per page while the text stays easy to read. Below the header it is a single column, so it is safe to upload to a portal. There is nothing to pay and no sign-up.
Pick Split if…
- You have ten years or more and will not cut it to one page.
- You want density without shrinking the type to six points.
- You are applying for a director, head-of or VP role, often through a search firm.
- Several roles at one employer need to sit close together without crowding.
Where the density comes from
- The header is a single row. Contact details beside the name, where most layouts stack them underneath, save most of a section's height on page one.
- Line spacing is 1.5 and entries sit close together, so a page holds more roles at the same type size.
- Headings are small, widely spaced capitals with a hairline under them. They mark the structure while taking very little room.
- Below the header everything is one column. In the header itself your name comes first in the file and the contact block after it.
How much fits on one page
Split holds six or seven roles on one page at Normal margins, which covers most fifteen-year careers if older roles are trimmed to two bullets each. Two pages is normal for a senior profile. Give page one to the last decade and let earlier roles, education and certifications follow on page two.
When to use something else
Density helps only when you have something to pack in. A fresher or a two-year candidate fills a Split page with white space under a heavy header rule, and a short resume looks thinner for it. Fresher is built for that stage. And when the document goes to a board or a search firm and presence matters more than density, Masthead or Sovereign give a senior candidate more weight, at the cost of ATS safety.
Split works well for these roles
Senior roles in finance, brand, healthcare, school leadership and engineering, where a long record has to be shown in full.
Questions about Split
- How do I show several roles at the same company in Split?
- Give each role its own entry with the same organisation name and its own dates; Split's tight spacing keeps them visually grouped. When one role has a few headline projects, add a sub-block inside that entry. It prints as a small titled group under the role, so you do not need a separate entry for each project.
- Is a two-page resume acceptable for a senior role in India?
- For ten years or more it is common and widely accepted. Reviewers object to a second page that holds three lines. In Split, fill page one with the recent decade and let page two carry the rest. The editor's page counter shows where the break falls while you edit.
- Is Split ATS-safe with its two-part header?
- Yes. Name and contact block share a row but are separate pieces of text, with the name first in the file. Parsers usually find an email address or a phone number by its pattern, wherever it sits, and everything after the header is a single column.