In this Issue
- Article: Five quick styling tricks to help your CV stand out
- Free Download: A minimal .docx CV template for you to use
- LinkLove: A selection of useful CV related links from around the interwebs
- Book Review: Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions
- Resume of the Month: Sean McNally
Five quick styling tricks to help your CV stand out
Only use two fonts. Use one nice clean font for the paragraph headers and use a readable font for the rest of the text. This makes your CV more readable as the eye can break the page down easier. Using Times New Roman or Comic Sans will make your CV look cheap and unprofessional.
Shades of grey. Don’t use black coloured text. It is harsh against the white of your page. Instead use a dark grey for paragraph headers and a slightly lighter grey for the main text. This will help the page scan. Do not go too light as you want the writing to show up when photocopied.
White space. Make sure there is a lot of white space on your CV. Leave large gaps between paragraphs and sections. Go onto a second page if necessary. This makes the page very easy to read.
Equal amounts. If you have a CV on two pages make sure there are equal amounts of text on each page. Nothing looks worse that everything crammed onto one page with only a couple of lines on the other.
Consistent. Make sure the dates all look the same. Make sure that the tabs on the section headers are all the same. The layout on the page should be consistent across the whole document.
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Free Download
This month’s offer is a free Word template just for you. This clean, minimal themed CV is just the job to help you get that job. Download it by clicking here.
LinkLove
This is the article that started it all. Chanpory starts off with typical CV and then goes through a design clean up to make the finished product a lot cleaner and easier to read.
This youtube video shows the secret to a guerrilla resume appears to be putting bits of it in colour and adding logos. Personally, I wouldn’t suggest this as I think the resume looks terrible.
The good thing about these letters are they are templates for situations as well as specific disciplines: responding to adverts, creating connections with companies, email cover letters and such like.
Have you any useful links that you are willing to share? Let us know.
Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions
The good thing about this book is that it is an easy read and offers loads of tips on how you should approach interviews. Its style gives you the correct attitude for job hunting and puts you in the right frame of mind. It helps you feel more prepared and confident before and during the interview.
Some of the questions it deals with are the assessment type questions as well as explaining what answers the interviewer is expecting when they ask those more unusual questions. And there are loads of examples.
It also deals with interview etiquette, and body language as well as the kind of questions you might get asked in an interview. More importantly, it helps you be in control of the interview, asking questions as well as answering them.
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Resume of the Month: Sean McNally
If you want to get a job in design then a well-designed CV is the trick. And if you want to get into game design, then make your CV look like a role-playing game character sheet. Unique.
Got a sweet looking CV? Could your employment history inspire others? Want to show it off to the world? Send us a link to your CV and we’ll include the best in next month’s newsletter AND splash it over the front of the site for a WHOLE MONTH! Get in touch.
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Sample docx cv is excellent, i used it.. and it worked.
Your site has less content but equal to a big site.
Nice idea. I hope it works out for you. I’d like to see you cover useful keywords in CV’s in a future edition.