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Free Cover Letter Templates

A cover letter is the one page of your application where you get to speak in your own voice. Your resume lists what you did; the cover letter explains why it matters to this employer, for this role. Below you'll find free cover letter templates editable in Microsoft Word, and — further down — ten complete sample cover letters written out in full for different jobs and situations: graduates with no experience, administrative assistants, customer service, teaching, nursing, accounting, sales, career changers, people returning after a break, and speculative letters sent where no job was advertised. Read the sample closest… Read More

Creative Resume Templates

A creative resume uses layout, colour and typography to show design judgement alongside the usual career information. It suits designers, marketers, art directors, photographers and anyone whose work is judged visually — and it can actively harm an application everywhere else. The free templates below are editable MS Word files, and beneath them you'll find how to keep a designed resume readable by recruitment software, and the two-file approach that removes the trade-off altogether. The Portfolio Does the Creative Proving Worth settling before any design decisions, because it changes what the resume is for. Almost nobody is hired as a… Read More

Modern Resume Templates

A modern resume is a clean, single-column document that a recruiter can read in a hurry and recruitment software can read at all. It uses restrained typography, one accent colour, and plenty of space — and it puts the work into the wording rather than the decoration. The free templates below are editable MS Word files, and beneath them you'll find the layout rules, accurate guidance on applicant tracking systems, and worked examples of the thing that actually decides whether a resume works. What Makes a Resume Modern Six things, and none of them is decorative: A clean sans-serif typeface… Read More

Free Resume Templates

A resume template saves you the layout so you can spend your time on the wording — which is the part that actually decides whether you get a call. Below you'll find our resume collections by category, an interactive builder if you'd rather not start from a file, and the two decisions to make before you download anything: which format fits your history, and which style fits your industry. Build One in Your Browser If you'd rather not edit a Word file, our free Resume Builder walks you through each section and produces a finished, formatted resume you can download.… Read More