Design CV template
Cairo Charcoal and gold.
Cairo has the darkest sidebar of the set: charcoal, on the left, with a round photo and your contact details, skills, languages and links in light text under gold headings. Your name is set in light, widely spaced Poppins capitals above a gold job title, and the main column uses Noto Sans.
The layout
How Cairo is built, and what it suits.
- Layout
- Sidebar on the left
- Photo
- Round, optional
- Typeface
- Poppins (name and headings), Noto Sans (text)
- Headings
- Spaced capitals with a hairline below
- Dates
- Right-aligned beside each job title
- Skills
- A list in the sidebar
- Colour
- Charcoal sidebar, gold accent
What it suits
Applications a person reads first: an email to a recruiter, a referral, a printed copy for an interview. For job portals, an ATS template is the safer choice, because some applicant tracking systems read sidebars, columns and header bands out of order.
If you print it, keep in mind that the dark sidebar uses a lot of ink.
Make it yours
The sample is a finished PDF, not a Word or Google Docs file. To use Cairo, fill in your details once in Smart CV on iPhone, choose Cairo and export your own PDF. Sections you leave empty are left out, and a long CV continues onto a second page.
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