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    Updating my resume for the first time in 6 years because it's time to get out of here. I can't believe the tacky pseudo-infographic layouts that seem to be trendy in resume design. Do people really get hired with stuff like this?



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    • I never use twitter, but now feel I have to put it on my resume to appear "with it".i_monk
    • then you better start using twitter! can't invite peeps over to an empty feedGnash
    • Someone sent me their CV who used software icons instead of the names. I forwarded it to our HR folk - they didn't know what they were. They weren't hired.face_melter
    • Like, they had the C4D, Ps, Illy icons there with no explanation of what they were. A 50yo woman who uses Office isn't going to know what they are.face_melter
    • You'd be surprised what non-design people are impressed with.omahadesigns
    • only the 2nd one is printable,
      it's something I guess      GeorgesII
    • i_monk, for what it's worth, the overwhelming majority of the CVs I've screen at the agencies where I've worked were rather more conservatively designed.Continuity
    • That said, I live in Germany, where people do really go for tacky, over-wrought CVs. YMMV.Continuity
    • *don't really go forContinuity
    • It highlights an applicant's inability to trust their own design decisions.robthelad
    • These are pretty cool. I need to step my game up.docpoz
    • I like the bottom one - "get in touch" + icons + descriptor + the actual contacts. "Gee, perhaps just some of that is a tad redundant?"detritus
    • ...and I'd ignore him for his garb alone.
      Amusingly though, his "why should we work together?" points are pretty much exactly what I had on my first CV, haha      detritus
    • JOBEMPLOYERWHENDUTIE...detritus
    • If you're looking to apply to BuzzFeed, these are on point.Maaku
    • Before i saw the second and third name I was thinking "Errol Veloso? i_monk's name is Errol Veloso? Weird and cool" but then...oey
    • Why have those bar charts basically saying you SUCK at something? LOL. Come on.studderine
    • SO MANY of these types of resumes have charts like that.i_monk
    • The 2nd one looks like a menu for some kind of shitty food truck that sells 'ethnic' food from Azerbaijan or some such bobbins.face_melter
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