Resumes and CVs play a crucial role in creating a right perception and image of you in the minds of your prospective employers. The online resume helps you to reach a wider audience and thus increases chances of getting a perfect job/work as well as having something to link to in your job applications so potential employers can find out more information about you to see if you are the right candidate for the job. The design of your online resume is important which is why we have put together this collection of Resume WordPress Themes – you will need a fresh modern design which looks good on all size screens such as mobiles, tablets and regular size displays.
You should pick a theme which fits the type of employment you are seeking, we recommend that you keep to something simple with great typography which can showcase your CV and writing without distracting readers with the design itself. The site should make use of whitespace, have a simple clean logo and should display your CV in a neat readable format. It would also be a good idea to offer your CV as a download, PDF or Word format would be suitable.
WordPress is a perfect choice for hosting your online Resume, you can easily setup a website with WordPress and pick the right Resume WordPress theme to suit your needs and personality. In this list we have hand-picked over 40 quality examples which you can download today and get started building your online presence
Divi
Overview
Build any type of website including a resume or CV site. The Divi Builder allows you to create beautiful and unique layouts visually, without touching a single line of code. The builder gives anyone the ability to create truly dynamic websites with ease. Divi is constantly being updated and the customer support over at Elegant Themes is great should you ever need it. Some of the features of Divi include:
- Real-Time Design – See Changes on the Fly
- Click & Type – Just click text to edit it
- 46 Content Elements to Build unique Layouts
- Fast Loading – No page refreshes for content changes
- Amazing Customer Support
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Sarah
Sarah is a nice and clean responsive theme designed especially for personal resume websites, portfolios and can also be used for blogging. It’s easy to customize and has an attractive design so it’s perfect for someone who needs a CV website for potential employers to view.
HighClass Portfolio
This theme by TemplateMonster is a great looking modern and business-like portfolio theme which allows you to upload a header image, your own head-shot photo and link out to all your social media profiles. You can use it to host your resume and it will be sure to impress employers as you seek out employment online.
Freelancer
Freelancer is a theme aimed at designers, photographers, artists and other creatives who need a portfolio style theme with a clean minimal layout and plenty of options for showing off your work and employment history.
CV Timeline
CV Timeline is designed for creating resume websites or for a portfolio website – it can be used as a VCard also and for any other type of personal website. It has a dark layout, sidebar menu and space at the top of the homepage for adding a photograph of yourself.
BusinessCard
Business Card is a ultra simple jQuery powered theme from Elegant Themes which houses everything on one page so you can provide all the necessary information about yourself in one neat package.
MyResume
My Resume is another theme from ElegantThemes which is designed to look like a piece of paper with your resume contained on it, provides space for a portfolio with images, an introduction about yourself along with your photo and contact details.
Portfolio
Portfolio is a clean and tidy portfolio theme with an emphasis on a minimal design which you can use to display your work in a responsive layout, lots of widgets and customization options are also included so you can change it to suit your exact requirements.
Designer’s Portfolio
This one is for creating a professional looking CV or resume website which lets you add your photo, employment history, images, other pages and your contact details so you can display your achievements for potential employers.
Web Designer
This is a theme for Web Designers to build a resume website but it can also be used for many other professions due to its neat layout and professional styling. You can use it to add a portfolio, progress bar of skills, testimonials and contact details for employers to view online.
Martial
Martial is modern looking theme for bloggers, writers, photographers and other content creators looking for a traditional blog layout. This theme also includes two custom widgets – an author box to add your photo, about me information and social media profiles. It also includes a recent / popular posts widget so you can draw readers to your best content.
Photographer CV
Photographer CV is clean and modern theme which can be used for Photographer’s and other types of creative workers to create an online portfolio or resume website quickly and easily. It comes packed with features, styling options and all the features you would need to create this type of website.
FlatCV
Flat CV has windows Metro styling and lets you create a tidy little business card like website for displaying your personal information, social media links, contact details and employment history.
Connect
Connect is a business card vCard type theme for creating a professional resume for potential employers to find out more about you.
Profile
Profile is designed to be your personal online hub, add your resume, social media profile links, custom pages, contact page and lots more – customize it how you like by changing colors and uploading your own photos.
Flat
Flat is a theme by the good folks at Themify and uses the design trend of “flat design” made popular over the recent years. Its a great looking and bold theme perfect for designing your personal resume site backed by some of the best customer service in the business.
Fullscreen
Fullscreen is a bold theme which allows you to add a full screen image background along with a gallery of your images, social media profile links, posts, pages and so on. With a press of a button the theme can do fullscreen and let your visitors navigate using their keyboard.
Fullpane
Fullpane is another Themify theme with a parallax scrolling effect for the image backgrounds. It’s built with the latest CSS3, HTML5 and Javascript technologies, it looks great and will let you build a resume website which stands out from the pack.
Obsidian
Obisidan Theme has a beautiful modern layout with some great typography and styling touches, its really easy to customize and can be used for a number of different types of website – pick this one if you would like a good focus on design and somewhere to show off your work online.
Resume
Resume is a bold and beautiful resume theme which uses smooth transitions, bold type and has lots of advanced features to make a resume site creation and absolute breeze.
Designer
Designer is a great looking theme by Array – its perfect for creating a personal website for showing off your writing, images, audio, photography and more.
Xpert
Xpert is a simple and cleanly laid out theme for building your own resume website – you can showcase your skill levels in different abilities.
Bionick
Bionick is a funky looking theme designed to showcase your skills and abilities as well as functioning as a portfolio, blog, resume and skills theme. It’s suitable for designers, photographers, illustrators, video producers , architects and other professions who need to showcase their work.
Me
Me is a a very modern and clean theme for business professionals to create their personal websites by adding imagery a self photo, social media details, resume and it also contains the usual features such as a blog and portfolio section.
About The Author
Oliver Dale is the founder of Kooc Media, an online company which has been working with WordPress since 2009. He has written hundreds of posts about WordPress in that time and founded two theme companies which provide free and paid themes to millions of users.
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May 4, 2017 at 6:33 pmVery good this blog…
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