Writing your CV
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- CodenameAM
I think it's time to make my next move as i think my current role isn't moving anywhere and I don't feel like settling for 'average'. So I have decided to update my cv and am finding it the biggest ball-ache in the world! I hate writing about me or my current role, and if I'm bored, the companies that I will send it out to, will be too!
Any ideas? I have bundles of work to do aswell, as I need to get all my creative work online too, but I though I'd start with the hardest part!
Any help or ideas would be fab!
Oh, and I won't be designing my cv, it will be classic and clean, not really into making the user work to find out who I am...just my opinion.
Cheers.
- mydo0
I get sent tons of CV's, to be honest, i don't bother reading them unless there is a portfolio on-line i can flick through first.
a CV should just be in MSword in a system font.
If you don't like writing, just list your history. no one cares, because they know you're just making it up anyway!- lolrosskemp
- Thanks mydo, I'll get cracking with the online folio too!CodenameAM
- comicsans0
The purpose of a CV is to get you invited to chat/interview. If they have a HR department then CVs are a necessary evil, list your achievements and skills and keep it to 2 pages max. Otherwise send them a link to your protfolio, email and phone number.
- CodenameAM0
Thanks Guys,
I'll get cracking on the online folio and keep the writing to a minimum!
- mydo0
send a portfolio link to the CD, ECD or whoever makes the decisions about designers. then follow up with a friendly phone call, then pop into the office and say hello. They will then call you and ask for a CV because they want to employ you and THEN their HR department is going spastic because it can't understand that a human being doesn't have a CV. and if it doesn't have a CV then it doesn't exist. then send them a letter saying "if i get a job at your company i'll write a cv and send it as a cover note ever time you make me fill out a holiday or sick leave form you fucking HR fucks.x"
- ha,ha - HR is clearly your favourite part of a company! But thanks for the advice.CodenameAM
- orrinward0
My CV fits on one A4 page. It briefly outlines my previous job title and workload for them, noting particular high achievements. It has my educational achievements, contact details (snail-mail, e-mail and phone number) and a simple breakdown of my strongest skillset and working knowledge skillset.
On one page the potential employer can see where I've come from, get an idea of my level of success, brief overview of what I'm used to working with (project wise and in what sort of a company) and a quick run through of whether or not I feel suitable to work for them. My portfolio/interview is what lets them decide if they think I'm suitable.
It's not a stylish CV but it's not a simple word jobby. A nicely laid out and stylised PDF seems to go down well.