Creative resume templates aren’t for every industry. Some industries, like engineering, law, medicine etc are still looking for standard conservative resumes. However other industries, including marketing, digital services, art and fashion have adopted more creative resumes.

I am always in awe of creative resume templates, because it takes time. it takes imagination to come up with a creative resume. And almost always you need some paid tools to create these resumes.

However, recently a tool I use for images, Canva, rolled out a new category of design – Resume.

What is Canva?

Well OK, firstly, if you haven’t heard of Canva, it makes design simple for everyone.

Here are some default designs that you can quickly edit and have a perfect size for various platforms –

It is free to open an account on Canva.

OK, so what about creative resume templates?

Yes, good point, I need to get to the creative resume templates. Apparently, Canva now has some free creative resume templates that you can quickly edit and make your own. You can download the creative resume templates as pdf and you are on your way.

p.s. if you want a traditional resume, you can create a CV online for free using our CV Maker.

So, here are my 5 favourite creative resume templates… do let me know if you give any of them a go. And Canva have more templates than this, I’ve only mentioned 5 in here.