A Certificate is a document which is earned by an individual against a significant effort either mentally or physically. Usually people get certificates when they complete a landmark in their education or achieve a performance level in their professional life. There are certificates like Employee of the Month/Year, Performance Recognition Certificate, Award Certificate etc that can fill the life of an employee with excitement and motivation to do more and more good work for his/her employer. It works like a fuel for the whole organization no matter how big or small is the business itself.

Here are some of Free Certificate Templates available on Internet and hand picked by me to share with my visitors,

This certificate is issued to acknowledge the performance of an employee/worker over a period of time. This certificate template is created using MS Word and is very easy to edit and customize. Moreover, being creative and simple altogether it is really useful for every organization to issue this certificate having an impression of professionalism and dignity. To use this certificate, it is easy and simple to download it from the link bellow and unzip it to extract the dotx file. This file can easily be edited in MS Word 2007 or later version. Just fill-in the Name of Employee and achievement detail. This certificate can also be used for academic purposes. You can award this certificate to any student who has shown shown extra ordinary performance in a particular subject. In that case, just fill in Student Name and the corresponding subject.

Click on the link below to download this Certificate of Excellence Template,

Download Certificate of Excellence.

Here is another great looking certificate template. This is an award certificate that is usually used to award an employee or worker with a special honor or benefit for achieving a special performance in a respective field. Award certificates are very common in businesses where people have a feeling of going ahead of others in professional career by means of their performance and do everything possible to get a distinction. A beautiful star-themed border makes this certificate template very unique and attractive. It is strongly recommended to print this certificate on a fine colored paper with embedded design. This will add value to this and the recipient will feel to be honored to receive it.

Here is download link for this certificate,

Download Award Certificate Template

Certificate of Appreciation Template

Here is another Certificate of Appreciation Template that is really handy and useful to create an appreciation certificate quickly and effectively. This certificate is very generic in its design nature and can be used for any kind of event or appreciation occasion. Its color scheme allows it to fit any situation possible. You can create it for business needs or in educational institutes to please your teaching staff. Being created in MS Word it is very easy to edit and customize, just download it from the link below and start editing after extracting this file.

Here is download link,

Download Certificate of Appreciation.