Wave rhythm
Design · Advertising
Blue main column and rounded label headings, ideal for creative roles.
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Made for creative fields
Eye-catching CV templates
Bold colours and a layout with clear focal points. Ideal for design, media, marketing and other fields where personality counts.
Pick any accent colourChoose a colour that suits your field and personality.Focus on what mattersYour name, target position and skills stand out at once.Room for a portrait photoThe photo is well balanced and never crowds the content.
Royal
Beauty · Hairstyling
Plum column on cream with elegant gold ornaments.
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Fresh leaf
Retail · Coffee shops
Soft sage green, a handwritten name and a wavy photo frame.
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Modern
All industries
Bold left column with your experience on the right.
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Creative
Creative
Colour band header with an icon for every section.
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Professional
Management
Timeline on the left and a colour band header.
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Digital
Information technology
Charcoal sidebar with code-style headings.
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Dynamic
Marketing · Communications
Vivid diagonal colour band and skills shown as tags.
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Palette
Design · Creative
Pastel cards in the sidebar and a round photo with a coloured ring.
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Executive
Management · Business
Graphite band with elegant brass-gold lines.
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Blueprint
Engineering · Construction
Technical drawing frame with wide, crisp type.
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Hospitality
Tourism · Hospitality
Airy centred type with a soft wave at the bottom.
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Bold
Arts · Television
Black and lime yellow in strong contrast.
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Real estate
Real estate · Luxury sales
Luxurious bronze with large, fine serif type.
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Preschool
Preschool · Primary teachers
Warm orange, playful rounded type and a bubble background.
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Culinary
Culinary · F&B
Warm brick red with brush strokes at the top.
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Beauty
Beauty · Fashion
Graceful deep pink with sparkling stars.
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Sales
Business · B2B sales
Decisive brick red with thick underlined headings.
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Investment
Investment finance · Securities
Brass gold on a dark base with a vertical band on the left edge.
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Advertising
Advertising · Agency
Electric blue with polygon shapes in the corner.
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Automotive
Automotive engineering · Garages
Dark column like a service workshop, with steel capital letters.
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Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity · SOC
Black and cyan like a monitoring screen.
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Game developer
Game development · Unity
Bright orange, pixel confetti and a dark right column.
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Non-profit
Non-profit · Community development
Warm orange with mountains along the bottom.
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Eye-catching CV templates: stand out in the first few seconds without being hard to read
In recruitment, making an impression is not about using lots of colour; it is about the reader remembering you after a quick skim. A colour bar, a name in the right place and a one-line summary with a figure are enough. Việc Hot has 24 eye-catching CV templates for design, communications, marketing and sales, with a main colour you can change to suit your industry. The sections below cover who should use them, where to put the focal point, how to choose colours and a photo, and when the effect backfires.
Who eye-catching CV templates suit, and when to use them
At advertising agencies, media companies, fashion and cosmetics brands, food and beverage businesses and retail chains, the person reading your CV is often the head of the creative team, the marketing manager or a store manager. They look at a CV the way they would look at a product: a deliberate layout, tasteful colour and uncluttered text count in your favour before they even read the content.
By contrast, applications to banks, accounting roles and government agencies, or through a corporate recruitment portal with screening software, should use a one-column ATS-friendly version; save the eye-catching template for the copy you send directly by email.
Where the focal point of an eye-catching CV belongs
A CV should have only one visual focal point, and it must land on what the recruiter needs to see first: your name, the position you are applying for and a one-line summary. Keep everything else neutral. What deserves emphasis varies by position:
| Position | Emphasise | How to show it |
|---|---|---|
| Sales executive | EmphasiseSales figures, how far you beat targets | How to show itOne line of figures in bold under your name |
| Content creator | EmphasiseChannels you have run, views | How to show itChannel links in the contact section |
| Event organiser | EmphasiseEvent names and scale | How to show itYour three biggest events |
| Design, visuals | EmphasisePortfolio | How to show itBehance link next to your name |
| Teaching, training | EmphasiseCertificates, learner results | How to show itCertificates block before experience |
Colour, photo and fonts
Pick one main colour and one neutral (dark grey or black), and avoid a third. An old agency trick is to use a colour close to the brand identity of the company you are applying to: it is understated and shows you have done your research. Text on a coloured background needs enough contrast: print a test copy in black and white, and if it is still legible, it passes. Use a single sans-serif family such as Inter, Roboto or Montserrat for the whole page.
Only include a portrait photo if it is customary in your industry: plain background, shoulders straight, even lighting, no skin-smoothing filters and no full-length shots.
Content is still what keeps the reader reading
Colour buys a few seconds of attention, but the decision to invite you to an interview comes from the bullet points. Write to the formula action, figure, result; for any campaign or event you can state the scale, your role and the change it brought about.
Communications specialist: the same work written two ways
Before: Managed the company's social media channels and created engaging content.
After: Planned and produced 24 short videos a month for a beverage brand's TikTok channel; the channel grew from 12,000 to 85,000 followers in six months, and two videos passed one million views.
When an eye-catching CV backfires
- A dark background over the whole page, which uses a lot of ink and loses sharpness when printed.
- Percentage skill bars: "Photoshop 80%" means nothing to a recruiter.
- Icons instead of words in the contact section, white text on a pale background.
- A photo taking up a quarter of the page while the experience section is down to three lines.
Two dense columns also make screening software mix up lines from the two sides.
Make two versions and test before sending
What experienced applicants often do is keep two versions of the same content: an eye-catching one to send directly to the recruiter and a one-column one to submit through recruitment portals. On Việc Hot, the content is filled in from your profile, so switching between the 24 eye-catching templates and other templates needs no retyping; each template has 10 layouts, 36 backgrounds and 69 fonts to adjust. Before sending, open the PDF on your phone and print a test copy in black and white.
Frequently asked questions
Not really. Recruiters in these two fields are used to sober layouts, and applications usually go through screening software; a professional or ATS-friendly template is safer.
One main colour and one neutral. A third colour only makes sense if it is the brand colour of the company you are applying to, used on a small detail.
No. A percentage bar does not say what you can actually do; replace it with the tool name and how many years you have used it, or something you have produced with it.
It depends on the industry. Sales, events, communications and service roles usually include one; if you add a photo, use a recent portrait on a plain background.