30 Outstanding Resume Designs You Wish You Thought Of

It’s a competitive job market we hunt jobs in and sorry to say, resumes created in MSWord are just not going to cut it anymore. These days, particularly if you are a creative, you need an outstanding resume to make an impression on potential employers. When a prospective client looks at your resume, everything you put into your resume is doing all the selling for you.

Not only do you have to ensure that what you put into your resume convinces them that you are the best candidate for the job, you need to create a resume that not only shows them what you can do, but how you are not afraid to break boundaries, and try out new ideas.

Today, I’d like to share with you a collection of 30 outstanding resume designs that come in many forms: infographic designs, booklets, business cards, postcards, personal branding material, posters, website designs and more. Feeling the pressure yet? Perhaps it is time to spruce up your own resume design.

Recommended Reading: 7 Great Ways To Get Your Resume Noticed

If you need more design ideas, check out some of our published posts below:

Curriculum Vitae by Anton Yermolov

CV & Portfolio Mailer by Charlotte Allen

Resume by Roberta Cicerone

Self-Promotion by Syril Bobadilla

Resume IOS Version by Julien Renvoye

Bubbles Resume Template by CodeGrape

Updated Resume by Jered Odegard

Creative Curriculum Vitae by Nico Lopez

Curriculum vitae by Camila Soto

My portfolio by Stefania Capellupo

Self Branding, CV/Resume by Teesha Masson

Personal Branding & Self Promo by Mathew Lynch

Resume Book by Paula Del Mas

Curriculum Vitae by Rebecca Fisk

Infograpics of My CV / Resume by Felix Baky

Lucreziau cv sintetico by Lucrezia Urtis

Creative Resume by Iel Caseda

Curriculum Vitae by Carlos Bedoya

My curriculum vitae / skills by Simone Primo

Infographic Resume by Lim Zhiyang

My CV/Resume 2013 by Wap Martinez-Mercader

“Eye”dentity – Pop-Up Folder by Matthew Stucky

Personal resume by Maria Gabriella Aronne

NEW_CV by Candice Witpas

Portfolio ’11_newspaper by Marianne Riegelnegg

Jamie Murphey Resume by jamiemurphey

Infographic Resume by Varun Sudhakar

Anatomy of a graphic designer by Francesco Rivieccio

Infographic CV by Gary Corr

Self Promotion / Resume by Marco Bertoletti

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The Awesome Easter Egg In Sergey Brin’s Old Resume

Sergey Brin probably doesn’t need a resume anymore.

Back when he was a student at Stanford, however, it was a different story. You couldn’t just Google him. He had to lay out his achievements in a boring text doc like any other non-19th-richest-person-on-the-planet.

Someone stumbled upon his old Stanford student site (complete with totally awesome 90′s GIFs), and it’s been spreading around all day.

His now decades-old resume details his many projects and publications that lead up to one big project in particular — from developing “parallel algorithms for image processing” to working on “indexing multidimensional data for near-neighbor searches”. You know, the usual stuff.

The best part, though, is tucked away somewhere the casual observer generally wouldn’t think to look: the source. As highlighted by commenter pitchups on HackerNews, his resume contains a bit of fine print visible only within the page’s source code, detailing Brin’s mid-90s objectives:

Mission accomplished, I’d say.