Apex
A confident resume with a bold red accent and modern type
Apex is a resume template built around a bold red accent and modern typography. It renders as single or two columns with the header fixed at the top and no sidebar background. The strong accent draws the eye to section headings, making it useful for competitive applications where you need the document noticed.
Layout
- Single or two-column layout
- Header fixed at the top
- Sidebar left or right, no coloured background
- Bold red accent colour
- Up to 3 pages
Who Apex suits
- Sales, business development, and commercial roles
- Competitive applications with a high applicant count
- Leadership positions that reward decisiveness
- Anyone whose numbers are the strongest thing on the page
Consider something else if: Conservative professional services and academia, where a strong accent reads as self-promotional — use Core or Element.
About this template
Apex uses accent colour as navigation rather than decoration. The red is confined to section headings and rules, which does something specific for a reader working through a stack of applications: it makes the document's structure legible in about a second. A recruiter who can see instantly where experience ends and skills begin spends their limited attention on your content instead of on orienting themselves.
That makes Apex a good fit for commercial roles. In sales and business development, the resume is partly a demonstration that you can present a case with conviction. A document that is confidently structured and easy to navigate is consistent with the claim you are making about yourself. A hesitant, undifferentiated one quietly undercuts it.
Red is the most assertive accent in the set, and assertive is not universally an asset. In law, academia, and traditional finance, a bold accent can read as self-promotional in a context that rewards understatement. The same choice that helps you in a competitive commercial pipeline works against you there. Match the sector — Core and Element exist for the other case.
There is no sidebar background in Apex, so two-column mode gives you structural separation without a heavy colour block. This keeps the accent doing one job. Templates that combine a strong accent with a filled sidebar often end up visually crowded, competing with themselves for attention.
Practical note: if your strongest evidence is quantified — quota attainment, revenue, growth percentages — Apex's clear heading hierarchy helps those numbers land. Make sure the numbers are actually there. A confident template around vague bullets draws attention to the vagueness.
Questions
- Can I change the red accent colour?
- Yes. Apex supports custom colours, so you can keep the layout and switch the accent to something more appropriate for your sector.
- Is a coloured accent bad for ATS?
- No. Applicant tracking systems read the text layer, not colour. Accent colours affect human readers only.
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