Make a Free Printable Resume

Free Resume Templates from Microsoft

Microsoft Office Standard Templates

If you have Microsoft Office on your computer, there’s a good chance you have everything you need to make a free printable resume on your hard drive. Both Microsoft Word and Microsoft Publisher include resume templates. Owners of this software can use it to create an attractive, professional resume. Of course, when you use one of these templates, there’s a good chance that your resume is going to look very similar to those belonging to countless other individuals.

Microsoft.com Template Downloads

If you want to use your Microsoft Office software to create your resume, but want the finished product to be more creative than it will be if you use one of the built-in templates that comes with your software, it's a good idea to check out the resume and CV templates on Microsoft’s web site. You’ll find many different sample resume templates that can be used to create a document that truly reflects your skills and personality.

There are three categories of resume and CV templates on Microsoft.com, including:

• Basic templates
• Job specific templates
• Situation specific templates

Within each category, you can choose to sort the view of available templates by:

• Number of downloads – You can choose to view templates sorted in order order by how many times they have been downloaded. Those that have been download the most are likely to have been on the web site the longest, and a good number of users found them attractive and appealing enough to download.
• Rating – This option allows you to arrange the templates in the order of how highly other people have rated them. You may want to choose a highly rated template, because you know other people have found it attractive. However, a template with a lower rating might work just as well. It might be a more recent addition to the template gallery, which means that it might not have been viewed by a lot of people yet. This can work to your advantage if you’re looking to create a document that is unique in appearance.
• Name – The name sort option can be very handy, particularly if you have already visited the site and remember the name of one or more templates you found to your liking. When you sort by name, you’ll be able to quickly navigate through the templates to get to the one you want, because they’ll be displayed in alphabetical order.
• Date – Viewing the available templates by date can be beneficial, especially if you visit the site often looking for new resume designs and styles. The date option allows you to easily glance through the templates that have been added since your last visit to the site. You’ll save time because you won’t have to view examples that you’ve previously viewed in the past.

Other Resources to Make a Free Printable Resume

There are many other online resources for resume templates that you can use to create free printable resumes.

• CollegeGrad.com offers a selection of resume templates, free for personal use, tailored to meet the needs of recent college graduates. The templates available on this site are customized for particular fields of study and employment.
• Ohio State University’s College of Engineering provides a number of free blank resume forms, each of which is geared toward positions in the field of engineering.
• The OpenOffice.org web site has a variety of downloadable templates, including one for a resume.
• SampleWords.com has an attractive general resume template that can be downloaded in Microsoft Word.

Make the Most of Your Completed Resume

Once you make a free printable resume, be sure to save it to your computer's hard drive. You don't want to have to start from scratch every time you need to update your resume. By saving your work this time, in the future you'll simply need to open the old file, add the new information, save, and print. You'll have a completely updated resume in no time at all.