Until very recently, I was guilty of a boring, bullet-pointed resume too (I realize that's cool in some industries, but a creative job should call for a creative resume, right?). That being said, mine still doesn't look as good as graphic designer Katie Briggs'. "I haven't been turned down for anything I've applied for with this resume," she said.
Katie's is just one of seven CVs Mashable has rounded up from innovative readers. If you need a little inspiration to give your resume a visual boost, check out the other six.
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I'm sure this kind of resume are curious and fun to see for the casual viewer, but keep well in your mind that a professional recruiter, or a company HR, sees this kind of bullshit multiple time on a daily basis.
This is not what we want, not what we need, not what we look for.
Best case, we will give you at most 10 minutes: the time needed to choose a business category, add your formatted resume to our text-searchable database and click a few links of offere you may be interested into.
Worst case (the usual one for infographic resumes), we just delete your entry and sometimes ask for a real resume.
We are not asking for your portfolio. We need your info. We will check your skills and works later on.
Please, note that I was Senior of the Graphic, Media & Architecture business dept in a world class recruitment agency.
Keep that in mind as you journey through life or as you are having one of ten interlocking puzzle pieces tattooed to your abdomen.
"Weird" meant badly formatted, video discs, infographics (like this one), printed on cardboard, oversize posters, huge books of images and such.
I had to interview a few dozens of those people, and a "weird" resume inevitably was followed by a confused girl -or, less often, kid-, dreaming of her first job in the flamboyant world of media business (as lead art director or creative guru, of course), lacking any practical skill needed in the real world.
Lesson 1) We see a damn lot of "weird" resumes. Keep that firmly in your mind.
Lesson 2)Your chances of standing out are actually way lower than the chances of being spotted as a douche.
Lesson 3) The most common way your resume will "stand out" is by giving away that you are a freshman in the business.
I figure that at least a 1/4th of them do. We Canadians take recycling seriously.
He should be fined and locked up! Social networking my ass.
Oh well, something about "Steel City" I guess.
Hypocrites, all. Why not become effectual and proactive by demanding the cessation of the toxic containment of corn-syrup or bottled water or some over-priced juice?
The problem with pollution? The individual irresponsibility of people who want their cake, to eat it, then to tell others how they should eat it, what time, how it should taste, etc. etc. etc.
Stop buying the shit, and manufacturers will cow-tow to demands that will keep their quarterly digits a-poppin'. Half the useless bullshit sold at Walmart is made of petroleum, manufactured by Asian wage-slaves, by a country whose Borg-like masses are way to far removed from sane sensibilities.....because they wanna be like the star-bellied sneetches....That would be y'all, us, we.
Glass is best. Throw it in the ocean and it turns into something the ocean can use. Oh but wait...what would the world be like without plastic??
Go look at some photographs prior to saaaay, 1930. Utilitarian plastics have given the world a rather dull, artless, cheesy look, and has no doubt contributed to the insanity that allows companies whose bulk of revenue comes from the 24-production of it, to continue to operate.
Hooray for this guy throwing empty plastic bottles with messages into the ocean! It's much more cathartic and profitable than lazily buying a bottle of (insert crap here) like some raccoon grabbing a shiny bauble.
Ok, done-*steps off soapbox during derby