Design your CV?
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- MR_EKKO0
Yeah I read something about that, superb idea. I've heard loads of tales including something about locusts in a box.
Imagine a cv where you could make some kind of animation/video that describes the story of you cv, maybe in a humorous way.
- boobs0
You're a fucking designer for fuck's sake! There's no excuse to make it anything less than utterly gorgeous!
- digdre0
futura still the font to use?
- 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.)
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Leigh0
just keep it simple.
its your portfolio that will get you the job, not how pretty your cv looks.
- Alpesh0
Nah simple word doc/pdf, clean simple type, structure it well so the reader can scan through the CV quickly.
- MR_EKKO0
I think maybe best to have a clear and concise pdf aswel as maybe some kind of experimental, radical cv.
- neue75_bold0
this is my old one, needs updating...
http://www.mgiesser.com/random/m…- and redesigned...neue75_bold
- its nice. i like it. not just a word doc but looks clean and simple too. me likeshitsuji
- can I rip thatdigdre
- it's always been well-received... I think whatever you do, it need to be in-line with how you present yourneue75_bold
- work, whether it be a pdf of samples, your physical folio or website...neue75_bold
- I agree it's the place to go all out, but you should make sure it's considered and 'on-brand' ;)neue75_bold
- nice... simple... clean...
...done. :)
(really nice, neue)PonyBoy - it's 'not' the place..neue75_bold
- really nice againMR_EKKO
- Ah, Gilles.... good guy.
Still hasn't shaved.Gucci
- PonyBoy0
if you're talking about a resume (sorry... 'gnorant 'merican here)...
... don't 'design' it... it's a document that holds simple KEY information about you...
... design your website... folio... etc... but leave your 'curriculum vitae' 'clean' of bullshit... it's merely going to be slipped into a file folder of other applicants... so make sure your name and immediate contact data is right at the top ready to be seen when some HR clown is sifting through stacks of resumes...
... in the end it's about your work... or at least it should be...
- PonyBoy0
ha... yeah.. what everyone else said. :)
- hitsuji0
so basically. nice type. easy to read layout. got it. i thought maybe it would need to follow the theme of your portfolio or website or something. thanks
- yep, that's what I'm crapping on about in my notes above..neue75_bold
- cool. just read your crap. sounds good to mehitsuji
- 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
- 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…
- BaskerviIle0
I hate that so much of the time the word 'designed' means 'full of superfluous crap and meaningless style'
So if that's what you mean then, no your cv should not be 'designed' but then nothing you ever produce should be in that case.
If you are a designer then of course your cv should be designed, by which I mean you've thought carefully the hierarchy of the information you're presenting and chosen a suitable typeface etc.
I'd recommend a simple, elegant, clean layout, carefully ordered but overall just a black and white pdf that you can send out.You will stand out from others by the quality of your typography and layout, but most of all by the content of the cv itself, then hopefully further on from the work in your portfolio- i could have worded it better. but the examples neue has given are what i was thinking...hitsuji
- Yeah, what Baskerville saidstem
- I fully agree. Im glad I actually read through the posts first this time.shitehawke