Visme is a free online graphics editor that allows you to create free resumes, flyers, banners, blog headers, social media posts, and more. It also offers free resume templates and lets you customize and download them without charge.

Although there's no shortage of graphics editors online, Visme has a few unique features that make it easy for people who lack graphics designing experience to create professional-looking resumes. Use these amazing features to give your resume a contemporary update in 8 simple steps.

Step 1: Sign Up and Login

Visme requires users to be logged in to the platform to access its Resume Editor.

Step 2: Access Templates Library

You'll be directed to your Workspace Dashboard once you log in. To access the library of resume templates, click on: Create New > New Project > Infographics

This will lead you to the templates' library page with a search bar to look for resume templates.

Searching for resume templates via the Workspace Dashboard search bar will not return any results. It only searches for results from your previous projects.

Step 3: Search for Resume Templates

Use the search bar to look up free resume template samples. Templates with a premium marking in the top right corner are reserved for paid members' usage.

Visme only offers a handful of free customizable resume templates, including alternative resume formats. However, you can create your own template from scratch using the premium templates for design inspiration.

Step 4: Choose a Resume Template to Customize

Scroll down until you find a resume template you like. If it's free, click on the Edit button. This will take you back to the Workspace Editor with the resume template in tow.

Step 5: Remove Premium Elements

Even if the template is free to customize, some design elements used in it might need a premium subscription to edit and use. Replace the premium elements with similar objects that are free, or simply remove them from the template to download it without watermarks.

Step 6: Explore the Visme Resume Editor

Visme has a few unique features that aren't offered by other free customizable resume editing resources. Edit the standard template elements and insert your data to customize the resume as you explore the Visme Resume Editor. Here's a look at the fantastic features that make working with Visme easy and quick:

Basics

Visme makes it easy to edit the major themes of a document. You can add pre-defined combinations of Headers & Text to make the text flow seamlessly. Use Font Pairs to highlight key statistics. Photo Grid feature helps you showcase your artistic abilities. Other features under the Basic tab, like Call to Action, only work with online resumes.

Graphics

This feature allows you to add cartoons, sketches, graphics, and more to your documents. Icons, Illustrations, 3D Graphics, Wireframes, Gestures, Shapes, and Avatars are other graphic features you can use to spice up your resume.

You can use a combination of different graphics elements like Lines and Shapes and Icons to present data concisely and attractively.

Although it's tempting to spice up every resume element with graphics and images, learn more about the do's and don'ts of an infographic resume to strike the right balance between graphics and textual content.

Photos

In addition to regular photos, Visme allows you to use GIFs, Mockups, and Cutouts in your resume. While Mockups lend more context to your photos, Cutouts help you add high-resolution object images with transparent backgrounds to your documents.

Data

The Data section is a standout feature offered by Visme that's not available with any other free graphics editing app. You can insert unique pieces of data like locations with Maps, Diagrams with labels, Charts and Graphs with properly defined values, and other Data Widgets like temperature, pie charts, percentages, bar graphs, and more.

Most of these features are free, but the fancy ones are reserved for premium members.

The Tables feature under the Data heading is similar to incorporating a mini-excel sheet with editable values. You can use it to showcase your educational achievements, list of certifications, and other statistical data like years of experience along with dates, key achievements, awards and honors received, and so on.

Some template objects are locked in pairs or groups, so you can move them around and edit them together. Click on these grouped objects, then click on Ungroup to edit the elements individually.

Theme Colors

Preset color palettes are a standard feature offered by most graphics editors these days, where you can change the universal color theme of your document with a single click. Using these color combinations allows you to give your resume a professional look.

Apps

This unique feature offered by Visme can integrate data from other apps with your Visme documents. Whether embedding a YouTube video, inserting files from Google Drive, or Survey Monkey polls, you can connect these apps with your Visme account and add valuable data to take your resume to the next level.

Using GIFs, animations, videos, and apps will restrict your resume download format to MP4.

Version History

Click on the three lines in the top left corner to access additional menu items like Canvas Size, View Options, Publish Settings, and more. A handy feature you can access via this menu is the Version History.

Visme auto saves the changes you make and also stores the different versions of the edited resume that you can access later. This is useful if you want to go back to a previous version with different text, colors, and formatting or simply restart from scratch.

Step 7: Upload Content

Although My Files is the optimal way to upload your personal content and organize it into Folders, you can upload stuff directly by clicking on Photos or Media and using the Upload File option.

Step 8: Download Your Custom Resume

Once you're done with all the customizations, click on the Download button in the top right corner to get your digital copy.

Free accounts can only download documents in JPG format. You need to be a premium member to download documents in PDF, PNG, GIF, MP4, and other formats.

Give Your Resume a Graphics Update

Visme makes it easy for regular people to incorporate graphics, charts, animations, apps, videos, and more in their resumes. Even if you're a graphics novice, navigating the Visme resume editor is easy and an excellent way to give your resume a graphics update.

Once you get the hang of it, you can move on to exploring more graphic editing tools to create a story-based resume showcasing your career journey.