Using Resume Samples: good, bad or evil?
A good template can really help you streamline your resume and keep it organized and professional without taking up a lot of your time, allowing you to focus on the actual content, as well as searching for your next job. It helps you add a touch of personality, stay structured and consistent and present your experience in a chronological, easy to read manner.There are some professionals out there who advise against using templates because they believe it makes your resume look generic and won’t help you stand out from other job applicants. This is certainly true when you use the very same generic sample that everybody else is using, without making any changes. Recruiters and hiring managers see hundreds of resumes every day, and they can spot resume templates a mile away.
Don’t use our samples as a ready-made cookie-cutter solution. Use them as an inspiration, as a foundation of your unique, one-of-a-kind, creation.
Free Resume Samples: functional, unique, professional
Resume samples are not difficult to find. If you Google “free resume templates“,
you get thousands of results but most of those pages don’t actually
offer free samples or may only have one or two samples to choose from.
In addition, the few appropriate examples you do find are often very
generic or geared towards one specific type of job. So what was intended
to save you time, now leaves you spending hours looking through a
mixture of useless information and resume examples at hundreds of
different websites, leaving you frustrated, confused and likely still
without a suitable template.
Here is where hloom.com comes to rescue. This page offers 279 unique professional resume samples that are free to download for personal use. Most samples are built in a way that you can use them as either chronological, functional, or combination format as is, and adapt to another format with little customization.
