Design your CV?
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- boobs0
You're a fucking designer for fuck's sake! There's no excuse to make it anything less than utterly gorgeous!
- Pupsipu0
designers don't necessarily have to make things gorgeous, unless the assignment calls for it.
Resume design should depend on where you're sending the resume, what kind of company you want to hire you. Who would be reviewing the resume, HR or CD?
The only things that should be universal on a designer's resume is that isn't universal for resumes in other professions is grid, whitespace, competent typography. Microsoft Word isn't so good at the grid part, but it handles the other two things well.
- braaad0
A friend forwarded this to me a while back- worth reading.
10 Tips for Writing a Remarkable Resume in Today’s Creative World:
http://www.theadclass.com/jobs/1…
- akrokdesign0
the cv/resume should be sexy. :-)
- Sandman_19820
This is mine, its in radical need of an update but I think on the whole its okay. Excuse the link too, the redirect function's fooked on my site.
- dMullins0
I don't do Word. If a studio specifically asks me for a CV in Word format, or I will immediately laugh at them, explain why they are stupid for not being able to accept PDF's, and close the book on that opportunity.
- pantoneprincess0
everything is designed
how can you have a cv and it not be designed?designed does not=do stupid stuff for the sake of making it look overly pretty
nice structured scannable type still means it is designed
- moth0
I always view it as an opportunity to practice some nice typography skills. If you can't make a page of text look nice, then you're not really cutting it as a designer.
I keep it to a one page pdf, but I also have a few optional continuation sheets should people ask for URL's/examples.
Word? Not likely. I'm not an office hand.
- flashbender0
if you use a recruitment agency, which you most likely will have to do if you're in london, they are going to want a .doc so they can take out all your personal contact info.
since other people are sharing, this is mine: http://flashbender.com/flashbend…
- That's retarded. Most recruiters just ask you to remove it when you submit.dMullins
- not over hereflashbender
- That's truly odd.dMullins
- dMullins0
Asking for a designer for their résumé in Word format means you're most likely going to end up the PowerPoint bitch. Have fun!
- dMullins0
Mine is terrible, and terribly out-dated to boot.