Pillar resume & CV template
A black strip down the page edge under a letterspaced centred name. Graphic, spare, and mostly white.
EXPERIENCE
Charge Nurse, Medical-Surgical, St Catherine's Hospital
Apr 2021 – Present
Minneapolis, MN
- 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
Registered Nurse, Medical-Surgical, Lakeview Regional
Jul 2018 – Mar 2021
St Paul, MN
- 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
BSN, Nursing, University of Minnesota
Sep 2014 – May 2018
Minneapolis, MN
CERTIFICATES
Registered Nurse (RN), Minnesota, MN Board of Nursing
Jul 2018 – Jul 2018
ACLS + PALS, American Heart Association
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024
What defines this layout
- Sans-serif typeface
- Single column
- No 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 Pillar as a CV
Pillar works as a British or Australian CV as it stands, where CV and resume name the same two-page document. The second column is the thing to check before sending: copy the text out of the exported PDF and confirm it reads in a sensible order.
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 Pillar the right choice?
Who it suits
Spare, graphic pages that still want a second column. The black edge strip is the only decoration and it carries the whole page.
What it does to ATS parsing
Two columns and an edge strip. The strip is decoration; the text is unaffected.
At two pages
The strip runs the full length, which is more than most decorative elements manage.
Use something else if
Quartz for a centred version without the split, or Flamingo for a coloured strip.
Other templates
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