Templates by industry – Page 2

A thoughtfully designed resume is expected, but usability matters most, because that is your profession. A clear, well-structured resume shows design judgement better than a flashy one.

Good practice for UX and UI designers:

• Clean typography, strong hierarchy and generous white space.
• A prominent portfolio link, since case studies are the real evidence.
• Real, selectable text, so the resume works in portals too.
• Short bullets about research, testing and outcomes.

Avoid skill bars, unreadable fonts and decorative graphics. A hiring manager reviewing your resume is also judging how easy it is to use.

A clean, single-column template with sections for technical skills, software, certifications and key projects suits most engineering roles.

Design priorities:

• A summary naming your discipline and sector, for example: "Mechanical engineer with eight years in HVAC design for commercial buildings."
• Technical skills and software on grouped lines, such as CAD tools and analysis software.
• Professional registration or certifications with dates.
• Experience bullets that mention project scale, standards and results.

Engineering employers value clarity, accuracy and evidence. Avoid decorative elements and keep the layout logical, in the way a well-organised technical report is.

Experienced engineers often need two pages, especially with project lists. If you hold professional registration or chartered status, put it near your name or in the summary, because it is one of the first things engineering managers look for.

Use a Key Projects section with a consistent short entry for each project: name, location, value or size if shareable, your role and one or two outcomes.

Example entry:
"Residential Tower, Dubai (fictional), 32 floors - Site Engineer

• Coordinated structural works with three subcontractors; completed handover on schedule."

Choose the most relevant five to eight projects, with the newest first. Keep them as text lines rather than a large table, which may be read poorly by software. If your list is long, attach a separate project list when the employer asks for one.

Put them in a grouped technical skills section near the top and mention the most important ones again in your experience bullets.

Example layout:

• "Design software: AutoCAD, Revit MEP, SolidWorks"
• "Analysis: ETAP, MATLAB"
• "Standards: IEC, IEEE, ASHRAE (as applied in your projects)"

Keep the names exact and current, and list only what you have genuinely used. In experience bullets, connect them to outcomes, for example: "Designed LV distribution for a 12-storey office using ETAP load-flow analysis." A single-column template gives these lines enough width to stay readable.

Oil and gas CVs are often longer and more detailed than average, listing projects, locations, facilities and certifications. A clean single-column A4 layout is common, especially for applicants in the Gulf.

Common features:

• A summary with discipline and years in upstream, midstream or downstream.
• A clear list of employers and projects, often including site names and rotation patterns.
• A certifications section for safety and technical courses, with dates.
• Two or more pages for experienced professionals.

Practice varies by employer and recruitment agency, and many use online systems, so keep formatting simple. Use plain text for project details rather than large tables.

A simple, practical single-column template that highlights safety certifications, project types and team size suits site supervisors.

Design tips:

• Certifications section near the top: safety, first aid and equipment certificates with dates.
• A short summary stating your trade background and the project types you have supervised.
• Experience bullets showing crew size, programme and safety outcomes, for example: "Supervised a crew of 40 on a four-storey school project with zero lost-time incidents."
• Languages, since many sites have multilingual teams.

Keep the design plain and practical. Hiring managers in construction value clarity and evidence over decoration.

No. Photos and drawings make the file large, may not be readable by software and distract from your written achievements. Keep visual work for a portfolio or an interview.

Better options:

• Describe projects clearly in words: type, scale, your role and outcome.
• Link to an online portfolio if your work is shareable.
• Bring a printed or digital portfolio to interviews.

Check confidentiality before sharing any drawings or photos from past employers. Many engineering documents belong to the client or employer, and sharing them without permission can create a poor impression.

A clean single-column graduate template with Education and Projects near the top, followed by internships and a technical skills section, suits engineering graduates.

Layout order that often works:

• Summary naming your discipline and target role.
• Education, with degree, university, year and relevant modules if helpful.
• Projects, including your final-year or capstone project.
• Internships or work placements.
• Technical skills and software.

Example project bullet: "Designed a solar-powered irrigation controller as final-year project; tested on a 200 m² plot." One page is usually enough.

A clean, friendly single-column template that makes languages, guest-facing experience and property systems easy to find suits hospitality roles.

Design priorities:

• A short summary naming your area: front office, food and beverage, housekeeping or events.
• Languages listed clearly with levels.
• Systems on a grouped line, such as property management or point-of-sale software.
• Short bullets showing guest service results, for example: "Handled 80 to 100 check-ins a day during peak season."

Keep it to one page for most roles. Hotels hire for presentation and reliability, so a neat, well-spaced resume supports your application.

A clean single-column template that shows kitchens, cuisines, positions and food safety certifications clearly suits chefs.

Design tips:

• Each role should show the establishment type, such as fine dining, hotel banquet or quick service.
• A cuisines and techniques line, for example: "Cuisines: Levantine, Italian; Skills: menu costing, butchery, pastry".
• Food safety and hygiene certificates with dates.
• A link to photos of your dishes, if you have a portfolio, rather than images on the resume.

Head chefs and sous chefs can add a line on team size and kitchen volume. Keep the layout simple; your culinary creativity is better shown through tastings and portfolios.

A simple, one-page single-column template that is easy to read on a phone suits waiters and servers. Managers want to see experience, availability and reliability quickly.

Include:

• A short summary with venue types and availability, for example: "Experienced server in busy casual dining; available evenings and weekends."
• Recent roles with one or two bullets each.
• Languages and any food safety or alcohol service certificates.

Avoid elaborate designs; they add nothing for these roles. Make sure your phone number is correct and easy to spot, since many restaurants call candidates directly.

Aim for professional with a friendly feel: a clean, well-spaced layout, perhaps with one warm accent colour, and clear, positive wording.

How the tone varies by setting:

• Luxury hotels and fine dining: more polished and understated, close to a corporate style.
• Casual dining, cafés and resorts: slightly more relaxed, though still tidy.
• Corporate hospitality roles, such as revenue or sales: corporate style.

Avoid playful fonts and graphics. Hospitality is about presentation and attention to detail, and your resume is the first example a manager sees of how you present yourself.

Make languages a clearly labelled section near the top or in the summary, with an honest level for each. In guest-facing roles they are often a deciding factor.

Example format:
"Languages: English (fluent), Arabic (native), French (conversational), Hindi (basic)"

Tips:

• Use consistent level words throughout.
• Mention languages in your summary if they are a key strength, for example: "Multilingual front office agent serving guests in English, Arabic and French."
• Do not overstate your level; you may be tested at interview.

A single-column template with a short Languages section keeps this information easy to find for both recruiters and software.

A simple, one-page template with a short summary, clear experience bullets and a skills line suits retail roles.

Design tips:

• Summary stating your retail area, such as fashion, electronics or grocery, and your availability.
• Bullets showing customer service, sales and stock handling, for example: "Helped reach weekly sales targets by recommending accessories with every phone sale."
• A skills line with practical items: point-of-sale systems, cash handling, visual merchandising, languages.

A clean, friendly design suits retail. Store managers often read resumes quickly, sometimes on a phone, so readability is more important than style.

Creative enough to show taste and skill, but always readable and well organised. Your portfolio is the main showcase; your resume should prove you can organise information beautifully.

A good balance:

• Thoughtful typography, a clear grid and confident use of white space.
• One or two colours used deliberately.
• Real, selectable text throughout.
• A prominent portfolio link.

Avoid relying on skill bars, heavy graphics or hard-to-read fonts. Many studios also receive applications through online systems, so keep a simpler version available. A disciplined design often impresses creative directors more than an elaborate one.

A useful test: if you removed all colour and decoration, would the page still be well organised and easy to read? If yes, your design choices are adding polish on top of a solid structure. If no, the decoration is doing work that the layout should be doing.

Yes, matching them is a good idea. Using the same fonts, colours and name style across your resume, portfolio and cover letter shows a consistent personal brand, which is itself a design skill.

How to do it well:

• Pick one or two typefaces and one accent colour for all your materials.
• Use the same header style for your name and contact details.
• Keep the resume simpler than the portfolio; it is a document to read, not a showcase.

Make sure the resume still works on its own as a clear, text-based PDF. A hiring manager may read it before opening your portfolio, or the resume may go into an online system.

A clean, modern template with a touch of colour suits most marketing roles. It should look current and polished without becoming a graphic piece.

Design priorities:

• A short summary naming your area, such as brand, performance, content or product marketing.
• Experience bullets with measurable outcomes, for example: "Grew organic traffic by redesigning the blog's content plan and internal linking."
• A skills line with platforms and tools you use.
• A link to a portfolio or campaign examples, if you have them.

Brand and creative marketing roles allow a little more design freedom. Analytical marketing roles, such as performance or marketing operations, suit a cleaner, more data-focused look.

A modern, clean template with a subtle accent colour and clear links to the accounts or campaigns you managed suits social media roles.

Design tips:

• Put a portfolio link in the contact line, pointing to campaign examples you are allowed to share.
• List platforms and tools on a grouped line.
• Use bullets with outcomes, for example: "Planned and published 20 posts a week across three platforms, growing followers steadily over a year."
• Keep the layout readable; avoid filling it with platform logos.

Your resume shows you can communicate clearly and visually in a small space, which is exactly the job. Simple, confident design does that best.

A clean, modern single-column template that highlights platforms, certifications and measurable campaign results suits digital marketing.

Design points:

• A grouped skills line for channels and tools: paid search, social advertising, email platforms, analytics tools.
• Platform certifications with years.
• Results written in words and numbers, not charts, for example: "Reduced cost per lead by restructuring paid search campaigns and testing new landing pages."

Avoid dashboards or graphs on the resume itself. If you want to show reports, link to a portfolio with anonymised examples. Many digital roles are filled through online systems, so a simple structure is sensible.

Keep it typographically clean and simple. For writing roles, the quality of your words is the design, and a tidy, well-edited page shows editorial care.

Design tips:

• A classic or clean modern font with good spacing.
• A Selected Work or Publications section listing titles, outlets and dates.
• A link to a portfolio of published pieces.
• Concise bullets, edited as carefully as an article.

Avoid decorative layouts. Editors will notice any typo, inconsistency or awkward line, so proofread several times and check the PDF before sending.

Keep the resume itself text-based and clean, and link to your portfolio or showreel prominently in the contact line. Images inside the resume make the file large and are not readable by software.

Useful sections:

• Selected Clients or Projects, with brief descriptions.
• Equipment and Software on grouped lines.
• Experience showing the types of shoots or productions you have handled.

Example line: "Equipment: full-frame mirrorless cameras, gimbal, lighting kits; Software: Lightroom, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve." Let the portfolio do the visual work and the resume explain your experience and reliability.

A refined, well-structured design with careful typography and plenty of white space suits architects, supported by a separate portfolio of drawings and projects.

Design tips:

• Use a clear grid and consistent alignment; architects are judged on spatial judgement.
• A Key Projects section with project type, location, stage and your role.
• Software on a grouped line, such as CAD and BIM tools.
• A portfolio link or note that a portfolio is attached.

Keep images out of the resume itself, or limit them to a separate portfolio PDF. Practice regarding portfolio size and format varies, so follow each firm's application instructions.

Use an elegant, minimal design that reflects your aesthetic through typography and spacing, and let a portfolio show your actual work.

Good practice:

• A clean layout with one accent colour that suits your style.
• Sections for Experience, Selected Projects or Collections, Skills and Education.
• Software and technical skills on a grouped line, such as design and rendering tools.
• A prominent portfolio link.

Avoid filling the page with mood-board imagery or decorative fonts. Fashion houses and design studios see many applications, and a calm, confident resume often stands out more than a busy one.

Slightly. Agencies, especially creative ones, often welcome a more designed resume, while in-house roles at large companies usually suit a cleaner corporate style.

For agencies:

• A modern template with a confident accent colour is fine.
• Emphasise clients, campaigns and creative outcomes.

For in-house roles:

• A clean, conventional template that will read well in online systems.
• Emphasise business results, budgets and cross-team work.

The content shift matters more than the design shift. If you apply to both, one clean modern template usually works; just change the summary and the examples you lead with.

A clean, warm, single-column template with clear sections for qualifications, teaching experience and subjects or grade levels suits teachers.

Design priorities:

• A summary stating subjects, age groups and curriculum, for example: "Secondary maths teacher with six years teaching the British curriculum to ages 11 to 16."
• A Qualifications and Certifications section near the top, including teaching licences where relevant.
• Experience bullets about results, planning and responsibilities.
• A short section for extracurricular activities or school roles.

Avoid childish fonts or clip art, even for early years roles. Schools look for professionalism, organisation and clear communication.

One or two pages is common, depending on experience. If you apply to schools abroad, use the page size and spelling usual in that country, and name the curriculum you have taught, since schools often filter by curriculum experience first.