Anvil resume & CV template
Headings reversed out of solid dark labels down a tinted rail, dates in their own column. Blunt, and very easy to skim.
EXPERIENCE
Apr 2021 – Present
Minneapolis, MN
Charge Nurse, Medical-Surgical, St Catherine's Hospital
- Redesigned bedside handover; handover-related incidents fell by just over half in two quarters
- Precepted 6 new-graduate nurses through the residency programme, all retained at 12 months
- Coordinate care for up to 7 patients per shift across a 32-bed unit
Jul 2018 – Mar 2021
St Paul, MN
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical, Lakeview Regional
- Cut unit CAUTI rate by 38% as catheter-care champion over an 18-month programme
- Served on the falls-prevention committee that reduced falls with injury by a third
EDUCATION
Sep 2014 – May 2018
Minneapolis, MN
BSN, Nursing, University of Minnesota
CERTIFICATES
Jul 2018 – Jul 2018
Registered Nurse (RN), Minnesota, MN Board of Nursing
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
ACLS + PALS, American Heart Association
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Two columns with a tinted rail
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings over a full-width rule
- Dates in their own left column
Every one of these is a setting, not a constraint — accent colour, font, size, spacing and page margins stay yours under Customize, and switching template later re-renders what you’ve written rather than starting it over.
Using Anvil as a CV
Anvil carries a photo, which is what a continental European CV expects alongside the personal details a British one leaves out. For the UK, Ireland or Australia, turn the photo off in Customize — the layout closes up around it and the rest of the page is unchanged.
It sits at a normal density, which lands most histories on the two pages a non-academic CV is expected to fit.
More on the differences: CV templates and CV examples.
Is Anvil the right choice?
Who it suits
Roles where the page will be skimmed in seconds — recruitment, agency work, high-volume hiring. The solid heading labels are impossible to miss.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns and reversed heading labels. The labels are fills behind real text, so they extract; the columns are the thing to check.
At two pages
The labels carry length well. One of the more robust sidebar templates at two pages.
Use something else if
Cadet for the same labels on a dark rail, or Cinder for a quieter grey version.
Other templates
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