A cool CV tip
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- 23kon0
I'll disagree with you there Baskerville.
If you are a creative person then you should be doing something to stand out from the crowd.I've been involved with two small companies and have seen standard CV's come in and just get tossed to the side as we didnt have time to read them.
However, ive seen good creative ones to go on to become the talk of the office and get the person in for an interview even though we didnt need anyone at the time - just to meet them and put a face and personality to the creativity we've seen.One particular one that stands out was a diary style cv that was handmade and the font used was very much like handwriting . everyone thought the girl had neatly written everytthing in this little diary just for us. It was also personalised to us as acompany and not a mass-printed boring cv.
When im talking to students about CVs I always bring this one up as it was soooo stand-out to anything i've ever seen.If you are a suit-type person and not a creative I still think its even a good idea to do something quirky with your CV adter all, you are sending the CV to a creative company not a fuckin' bank or solicitors!
- 23kon0
adter all?
*after all
- Continuity0
It all comes back to what airey said, I think: know your audience. Obviously, there are great points for and against this tactic, and it all comes down to research.
- pillhead0
Pill bottle for a C.V, my first thought is that this person has just left collage and hasn't a clue.
- +1PIZZA
- if you went to collage and college you'll never have a clue.Amicus
- lol amicusHombre_Lobo
- bulletfactory0
it really depends on who receives your CV. If it's a CD or someone in the department, it might work. If it's the HR department, you're better off taking the pills and imagining you have the job, because it's doubtful your CV is going to make it into the hands of anyone in the creative dept.
- bored2death0
Good point. If you're targeting a small shop then a gimmicky résumé might get you in the door. If you're going after a larger firm, blindly sending it in will most likely go no where. Again, like a few people have said before: know the audience.
- tymeframe0
At the end of the day, it should come down to your experience, the work you've done and how that can benefit where you're applying.
- kona0
I went into a pizza shop and ordered a pizza for delivery to an agency with my cv and resume. I gave the delivery guy a $10 tip and he delivered them at noon. They called at 1:15 and I was interviewing there the next day.
- so u bribed them ?WeLoveNoise
- Who can resist pizza?Continuity
- no. i slipped them roofies.kona
- ahahah not bad kona, not badgeorgesIII
- ok_not_ok0
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- doesnotexist0
first thing I look at is the work, the cv is really secondary. that being said, I despise all desperate and clever attempts at making your portfolio something it's not. show me the fucking work. and if you don't have any work to show, or any work period to do, you probably have time to make your contraption. This immediately tells me you don't really work but pretend to.
- doesnotexist0
i mean, if you're treating your cv like a project when you shouldn't, what does that say about what you'll do on a real project? i don't want that shit.
- Continuity0
Nothing like reviving a thread from the dead ...
- Nutter0
Saw this post over at http://wemadethis.typepad.com/we…
Might not be rocket science, but it at least useful advice for students and graduates.
- identity0
If I ever apply for a director position somewhere (or a position that requires a fair amount of delegation) I'm going to take my CV, set in univers, pay a company a nominal fee to paint it, word for word, on a billboard in India - have the photograph it - then have them print a poster and mail it to the company...
Other than that - set it in one, maybe two sizes - univers light - MAYBE two different weights - grid - call it a day.
- haha. i'd hire you.bigtrickIII
- just photoshop it how would they be able to tell the differencePIZZA
- (sigh)identity
- ok_not_ok0
- Few like TNR, though. >:(Continuity
- looks like he's been dipping into his own stachecannonball1978
- cannonball19780
Personally I agree that this sort of attention seeking behavior works if you are a student and you have jack shit for work. It makes me think of that kid who got an ad job crafting google search results for a position. Outside of thinking outside of conventional ways to get attention, it said nothing of his skill set for the position he was going for (unless it was an SEO position).
To be honest in the last few years, most of the design work I've gotten I've just talked my way into with a Pages template resume. If you know your shit people know that you do. Otherwise its a lot of this:
- georgesIII0
I remember when we received a fake bloody hand in a butcher package,
the copy was something like "let me lend you a hand.."
we still have it in the fridge but we never called the guy.
we didn't really feel the whole psychopath vibe