Resume and CV templates

A hiring manager often decides in seconds whether to keep reading. These resumes, CVs and cover letters put your strongest points first, and they come in plain layouts for online application systems as well as more designed ones.

There are resume templates for every stage of a career: a first job resume, a high school or college student resume, an internship resume and an entry-level resume with no experience, through mid-career, manager, director and executive resumes. Career changers and people returning to work have layouts that lead with skills instead of dates.

Many resumes are written for a specific job, so the sample text already uses the right words for the role: nurse, teacher, accountant, software engineer, data analyst, project manager, customer service, retail, warehouse, electrician and dozens more. Replace the sample with your own experience and keep the structure.

Pick the format before the design. A chronological resume suits a steady career, a functional resume puts skills first, and a combination resume does both. If you apply through job boards, choose an ATS-friendly resume with a single column and plain headings, so applicant tracking systems read it correctly.

Pair every application with a cover letter. There are cover letters for graduates, career changers and executives, plus modern and simple designs that match the resumes. For academic and international roles, use a CV: academic, graduate, modern, simple and two-column CV templates are all included.

This category holds 126 templates for Google Sheets, Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, and Microsoft Word, 1 to 5 pages long.