Dovetail resume & CV template
A round photo at the head of a soft grey rail, with plain headings running down the light column beside it.
EXPERIENCE
Senior Financial Analyst, Harrow Capital
Jan 2022 – Present
New York, NY
- Own the operating model for a $180m revenue portfolio company through two board cycles
- Rebuilt the forecast to cohort-level retention, cutting quarterly variance from 11% to 4%
- Ran diligence on 3 completed acquisitions, including the model that repriced one by $12m
Financial Analyst, Bridgeway Group
Aug 2019 – Dec 2021
Boston, MA
- Automated the monthly close pack in SQL and Python, saving ~30 hours a month
- Built the unit-economics dashboard the commercial team now sets pricing from
EDUCATION
BSc, Economics, London School of Economics
Sep 2015 – Jun 2018
London, UK
CERTIFICATES
CFA Level II Candidate, CFA Institute
Jun 2024 – Jun 2024
Financial Modelling & Valuation Analyst, CFI
Mar 2021 – Mar 2021
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Two columns with a tinted rail
- Includes an avatar or photo
- Headings with no rule
- Dates right-aligned against each role
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 Dovetail as a CV
Dovetail 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 Dovetail the right choice?
Who it suits
A soft grey sidebar with a photo, for applications where you want structure without any colour decision at all.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns with a tinted rail. Ordinary otherwise.
At two pages
The rail empties out. Best at one page.
Use something else if
Ashen for a square photo, or Rosetta if you want some warmth in the rail.
Other templates
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