Verso: sidebar resume template
A full-height tinted rail carrying a solid accent header, with your roles in the wide column beside it. Skills and certifications move into the rail on their own.
Verso is one of 22 free résumé templates in PaperKit, the no-login résumé builder from CodeSierra. It is free to use and free to download as a PDF (no account, no watermark and nothing to pay) and it prints to A4 or US Letter. Verso is a showcase layout, so send it where a person reads your résumé first and keep an ATS-safe template for job portals. You fill it in as a form with the real PDF rendering beside you, and switching to any other template carries your content across untouched.
- Audience
- Design · Marketing · Client-facing
- Colour schemes
- Indigo, Navy, Teal, Maroon, Olive
- Photo slot
- Yes
- Paper
- A4 and US Letter
Pick Verso if…
- A person reads this before any software does.
- Your skills and tools list is long enough to deserve its own column.
- You want a two-column resume without the main column getting narrow.
What to know before you send it
- A full-height filled rail is a background graphic.
- Your name and contact details are reversed out of a solid block.
- Two columns: a parser infers a reading order the page does not have.
- Applying through a job portal as well? Keep an ATS-first template for that copy: switching costs nothing.
How much fits on one page
Skills and certifications move into the rail on their own, which frees the wide column for roles and bullets. Verso therefore holds more history than its two-column look suggests, around five roles. A long skills list is an advantage here rather than a cost.
When to use something else
A full-height filled rail is a background graphic and two columns make a parser guess at reading order. For the portal copy of the same application, Margin gives you the two-track look without either problem.
Verso works well for these roles
Each example comes with profession-specific bullets you can edit in place.
Questions about Verso
- Is the Verso resume template free?
- Yes. Verso is free: no login, no watermark and nothing to pay at the download step. You can edit it in your browser and download the PDF straight away. Every PaperKit template is free the same way, in all four makers: there is no premium set and nothing to unlock.
- Is Verso ATS-friendly?
- Verso is a Showcase layout: it uses decorative styling and a photo slot, which some applicant tracking systems parse poorly. Use it when a person will read your resume first, and switch to an ATS-first template for automated applications: your content carries over.
- Can I switch away from Verso later?
- Yes. Templates are a design layer over your content, so you can change template at any point inside the editor without retyping or losing a single line.