Template guide

The Freelancer resume template

For independent contractors, consultants and freelancers. An Available for projects tag sits above your name, Selected Work comes before job history, and a warm side rail lists your services, contact details and languages, so a client sees what you offer before anything else.

  • Best forFreelancers, contractors, consultants, agency-side specialists
  • StructureSelected work first, services rail on the right
  • LengthOne page
  • ATSReal text; clients rarely use ATS, agencies sometimes do
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A freelance resume sells a service

An employer asks "can this person do the job?". A client asks "can this person solve my problem, and have they done it before?". The layout is built for the second question: work first, then the services you offer, then your history.

Selected Work

Three to five projects, each with the client (or "a fintech start-up" if under NDA), what you delivered and the result:

Redesigned onboarding for a meal-kit app; trial-to-paid conversion rose from 9% to 14%.

Wrote and produced 12 product videos for a B2B SaaS launch; 220k views in the first month.

Services

List what clients can hire you for, in their language: "Brand identity", "Shopify store builds", "Technical SEO audits". Avoid internal jargon.

How to list freelance work as experience

Treat your freelance practice as one job:

Freelance Product Designer                         2021 - Present
Clients include a fintech start-up, a national retailer and two agencies.

That avoids a page of short contracts, and recruiters read it as continuous employment, which it is.

If this one is not right

Three close alternatives, and every one carries your content across untouched when you switch.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

As one continuous entry, such as 'Freelance Product Designer, 2021 - Present', with your strongest client projects as bullets. List major clients by name or by description if under NDA.

Both. The portfolio shows the work; the resume gives the summary that agencies, larger clients and job applications ask for. Link the portfolio in your header.

It is an optional tag that tells clients you are taking new work. You can change the text or remove it.

Yes. Selected Work and Services read well to employers, too. For a conventional corporate application, the Professional template may be a better fit.