Flux

Flux is the answer to a practical problem: most people do not have one job search, they have several running at once. You might be applying to a conservative corporate role, a startup, and a European employer that expects a photo, all in the same week. Those three applications want different documents, and maintaining three resumes means three places for your content to drift out of date.

Because Flux covers the full range — single column for the conservative application, two columns with a coloured sidebar for the startup, photo enabled for the European one — you keep one set of content and change the presentation per application. Combined with version history, this is the closest thing to a single source of truth for a multi-track job search.

The three header positions are the least obvious feature and the most useful. Header at the top gives you the traditional banner layout that recruiters scan fastest. Header in the sidebar produces the editorial vertical stack. Header in the main column pushes your name and summary into the primary reading path, which works well when your summary is doing real persuasive work — common for career changers who need to explain the pivot before the reader reaches a job history that would otherwise look unrelated.

Photo support deserves a note on convention rather than design. In much of continental Europe, a photo is expected and its absence is mildly odd. In the US, UK, and Ireland, a photo is discouraged and some employers discard photo resumes to reduce discrimination risk. This is not a taste question — match the destination, and Flux lets you do that without switching templates.

If you only ever apply to one kind of role, a more opinionated template will get you a good result with fewer decisions. Flux earns its place when your search is genuinely varied.