Modern Professional resume templates.
Contemporary layouts with clear hierarchy, restrained accents, and generous whitespace. These are the templates most people mean when they say "professional but modern". ATS-safe structure with thoughtful typography and colour.
Where modern meets professional
Modern professional templates balance readability and polish. They are still fundamentally single-column documents — the parser can read them without trouble — but the header treatment, section dividers, typography, and accent colours are more contemporary than the classic category.
These suit mid-to-senior candidates in technology, marketing, product, consulting, and any field where the resume is first read by a human recruiter rather than a machine. The structure is ATS-safe; the visual treatment is what sets them apart.
Accent colour matters
One accent colour, used sparingly. It should feel like a choice, not a decoration.
Let whitespace work
Modern resumes breathe. Wider section gaps, comfortable line-height, and room around headings.
Stay ATS-safe underneath
The DOM order is the same as the classic templates. The polish is CSS-only, never markup.