Why Boardroom passes ATS
The accent bars are borders on standard headings; the text remains ordinary words. Body text uses Carlito, a metric twin of Calibri, so it looks familiar to recruiters while staying fully embeddable and parseable.
- Single reading order: what you see is what the ATS reads
- No tables, text boxes or text inside images
- Standard section headings recognised by applicant tracking systems
- Fonts embedded in the PDF, so text is selectable everywhere
- Verified by exporting a real PDF and checking the extracted text
Who the Boardroom template is for
- People managers
- Senior and regional managers
- Department heads
- Service delivery managers
- Retail and branch managers
Tips for filling in Boardroom
- 1Show leadership scope in each role: team size, budget or region.
- 2Include one people-development result per role (hires, promotions, retention).
- 3Use the headline for the level you want next, e.g. 'Senior Operations Manager'.
Is Boardroom the right template for you?
Boardroom is aimed at managers and senior managers. Compared with Executive, it gives more emphasis to your name and title and less to a summary panel, which suits people whose recent roles speak for themselves. Compared with Slate, it is bolder and more personal. Department heads moving into director roles often start with Boardroom and switch to Executive once their summary is about strategy rather than delivery.
Boardroom template FAQ
What should a manager highlight on a resume?
Results delivered through others: team performance, process improvements, budgets managed and people developed.
Why Carlito instead of Calibri?
Calibri can't be legally embedded in our PDFs. Carlito has identical metrics, so the layout is the same.
