CV & Creation:

A CV is a document used when applying for a job. It allows you to summarise your education, skills and relevant work experience, enabling you to successfully sell your skills to potential employers. Along with a CV, employers may also ask for a covering letter. to have a good CV it is important to include subjects that are important to the agencies.

• Contact details – Include your full name, home address, mobile number and email address. Your date of birth is irrelevant and unless you’re applying for an acting or modelling job you don’t need to include a photograph. If you have a professional networking profile, website or online portfolio link to it within your contact details.
• Profile – A CV profile is a concise statement that highlights your key attributes and helps you stand out from the crowd. Usually placed at the beginning of a CV it picks out a few relevant achievements and skills, while expressing your career aims. A good CV profile focuses on the sector you’re applying to, as your cover letter will be job-specific. Discover how to write a personal statement for your CV.
• Education – List and date all previous education, including professional qualifications. Place the most recent first. Include qualification type/grades, and dates. Mention specific modules only where relevant.
• Work experience – List your work experience in reverse date order, making sure that anything you mention is relevant to the job you’re applying for. Include your job title, the name of the company, how long you were with the organisation and key responsibilities. If you have plenty of relevant work experience, this section should come before education.
• Skills and achievements – This is where you talk about the foreign languages you speak and the IT packages you can competently use. The skills that you list should be relevant to the job. Don’t exaggerate your abilities, as you’ll need to back up your claims at interview. If you’ve got lots of job-specific skills you should do a skills-based CV.
• Interests – ‘Socialising’, ‘going to the cinema’ and ‘reading’ aren’t going to catch a recruiter’s attention. However, relevant interests can provide a more complete picture of who you are, as well as giving you something to talk about at interview. Examples include writing your own blog or community newsletters if you want to be a journalist, being part of a drama group if you’re looking to get into sales and your involvement in climate change activism if you’d like an environmental job. If you don’t have any relevant hobbies or interests leave this section out.
• References – You don’t need to provide the names of referees at this stage. You can say ‘references available upon request’ but most employers would assume this to be the case so if you’re stuck for space, leave this out.

To make my CV I had a few ideas where I used CV ideas that contained a more minimalist style, with neutral colours, more modern details that matched a bit of my personality. So I used clearer examples with minimalist information.

 

In the process of starting to make CV template ideas, I began by using an application on the MyPerfectCv website to get an idea of what it would look like. At this stage I had several CV designer ideas, but the one that caught my eye the most was the simpler style with a more neutral colour than I would have liked.

 

 

After making my initial idea with the help of my tutor I asked for an idea of what I could do to improve it, add more information or remove information, so with Alec’s help I added a few more ideas of personal details but apart from a few details Alec thought the details were good and the subjects of the CV well produced.

 

 

With the part of making the modifications that were requested and also with some graphic parts of the CV, I started using Adobe Illustration where it was my main tool for producing my first professional CV. So I used the same style as the other CV but with a few different things that I really liked adding to the CV with more neutral colours in shades of beige and brown to make it look elegant and minimalist. In order to help me with the part about myself, I’ve focused more on talking about the areas of 3D modelling where I have the most skill, but I’ve also talked more broadly about other areas that I have knowledge of, summarising the subjects so that it’s interesting and not too boring to read, being as clear as possible with the information.

 

 

 

Once my CV was finalised, I managed to give it a more classic, elegant and minimalist style, where it was the way I wanted it to be. In the process, I tried to make the information very clear, where it would make sense and be interesting to read.