Design your CV?
- Started
- Last post
- 52 Responses
- dMullins0
Mine is terrible, and terribly out-dated to boot.
- 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!
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- akrokdesign0
the cv/resume should be sexy. :-)
- 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…
- 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.
- boobs0
You're a fucking designer for fuck's sake! There's no excuse to make it anything less than utterly gorgeous!
- fooler20
keep it to one page
- digdre0
- yikesmonospaced
- eyey ey/ tjhos ois kickassdigdre
- i'll change to akkurat/ monodigdre
- ESPtype0
- too much white space mate
mistermik - yeh way too much. would either occupy it with some work or change the grid entirelyWeLoveNoise
- I would never put work on a CVESPtype
- FIGHT!hitsuji
- nothing wrong with this at allBaskerviIle
- too much white space mate
- MR_EKKO0
I think maybe best to have a clear and concise pdf aswel as maybe some kind of experimental, radical cv.
- WeLoveNoise0
one guy put his CV in a blood pack and the person had to squeeze the blood in diff directions to view the CV inside
wasnt keen on that idea tho
- That's just gross. Really gross. Even if it's fake blood. I'd trash that shit immediately.Scotch_Roman
- yeh i kno - suppose its thinking "outside the box" but still crap.WeLoveNoise
- what about eating your cv and shitting it out and sending the turd?hitsuji
- depends on the job, visual fx it'd be appropriateversion3
- Scotch_Roman0
Well of course you should design your resume, but since when must "design" always scream for attention and hamper legibility?
Agree with others about PDF vs. Word. Don't design your resume in Word. Don't even make a Word version. If people want to copy/paste info, they can do it just as easily from a PDF.
I think the focus for a designer's resume should be the clear, concise presentation of information, and excellent use of typography. You can quietly flex your design muscles in the use of small caps, OSF, etc., but only in a way that clarifies the information within.
I've been guilty of over-designing my resume in the past. Now I keep it very simple. A couple columns, clear logic in switching of type styles, no more than two typefaces and no more than two or three versions/weights of each (bold, italic etc.)
- GAH, woopsScotch_Roman
- all right gramme you made your point... ;)elpaso
- it happensmonospaced
- Scotch_Roman0
Well of course you should design your resume, but since when must "design" always scream for attention and hamper legibility?
Agree with others about PDF vs. Word. Don't design your resume in Word. Don't even make a Word version. If people want to copy/paste info, they can do it just as easily from a PDF.
I think the focus for a designer's resume should be the clear, concise presentation of information, and excellent use of typography. You can quietly flex your design muscles in the use of small caps, OSF, etc., but only in a way that clarifies the information within.
I've been guilty of over-design my resume in the past. Now I keep it very simple. A couple columns, clear logic in switching of type styles, no more than two typefaces and no more than two or three versions/weights of each (bold, italic etc.)
- digdre0
futura still the font to use?