For this week, I decided to start making my progress on my CV by designing how will the layout of it will be.
The first thing that I did was look for some good examples of CVs that were specifically tailored to be for the animation industry and some bad examples of CVs for the animation industry. The reason for this exercise is to find inspirations and to see what I can and can’t do on my CV.
Bad CVs
Link: 4 Bad Resume Examples – Craig Kunce
For the first CV, as you can see it is pretty basic with a very a simple layout. However, it has a lot of issues looking at it. Firstly the text is displayed out in the middle which makes it a lot harder to read due to the differing line lengths throughout the CV. Second problem is that the CV is not looking fancy or anything eye catching that is tied to the job this person is applying. It says in the Education section that he learned Graphic Design from a College. While this is a nitpick of mine, it not only make his CV a lot more unique but also show the future employer what this person is cable of. Third problem that I see on this is the font choice. It looks similar to the font of the headlines of the CV. This can cause the problem of people feeling like the text is not separated nicely and there is no clear section.
Example 2
Link: Bad Resume Examples: The 6 Worst Resumes of 2020 (resumegenius.com)
For the second one, It has a lot of graphics in it. However, it is not looking interesting. In fact quite the opposite. Due to the different styles in graphics, it makes it quite distracting and harder to focus on reading things. Speaking of reading, the font of the CV is very small which cause it to be harder to read due to its size.
Good CVs
Link: Andrew Coyle – CV.pdf (ulster.ac.uk)
Here is the first example of a good CV. As you can see, the design of the layout is clean and unifying as it uses a colour scheme of blue, black and white which offer good contrasts and divides the sections well. Each individual headline stands out due to it having a small logo on to of it to make the process of finding things much easier. The writing on the CV is also straight to the point as it doesn’t waist your time.
Example 2
Link: Dermott_Burns_CV_2020_v07 (ulster.ac.uk)
Another example of a great CV is this one. While the layout is different, it still manages to get the job done as it uses a more linear layout to display their experience. It also uses a simple colour scheme to make the things on the CV much more easier to read. Also their headlines are big and bold. So they are very hard to mix.
Putting things together
After analysing every CV, it is time to create my own layout for the CV. Here is my layout so far.
Overall
I genuinely liked this exercise as I got to research about companies that I wanted to work in. While my CV is a work in progress, I enjoyed the designing progress.