If you’ve put effort in your CV/resume and you’re confident with your qualifications, chances are you’ll soon receive calls from your targeted companies to come in for a face-to-face interview. Normally a candidate is selected for an interview session is because one of these factors got the attention of recruiters: the right degree or professional background, your impressive portfolio, your valuable working experience or just asking for the right salary range.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
How To Ace Your Interviews (From The Interviewer’s POV)
Monday, April 8, 2013
Social media is on your resume whether you want it to be or not
Oh, Google and Facebook. Thanks to the two giants of search and social, you can’t really hide very easily anymore. If you have things in your past that you don’t want known, businesses considering hiring you don’t have to hire an investigator to go beyond the standard background check. They simply need to find you online.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Creative Resume Samples for Various Job Positions and Industries
If you’re applying for a job then you’ll certainly need to have a resume that you have to submit to your desired company or firm. This is usually the first and only document that an employer sees about you and this is what they will use in deciding whether or not they want to hire you. A typical resume has a quick summary of your key skills, your previous working experiences and your background education. It is primarily used to show your experience and skills that to make you suitable for the targeted job position. Creating a resume is actually very easy as you simply need to note all the important details about yourself and your professional career which is vital to your application. However the proper way of making a resume seems to be the problem of most applicants. Thankfully there are now resume samples that you can download online so you can have a document to refer to while making your own.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Resume Design Tutorial for Professional Designers
Designers have a hard time creating a resume (also called CV), that’s because a designer is supposed to design something outrageous for his introducer… I mean resume is the thing that’s gonna makes a designer’s first impression, not the designer himself!
I was coping with the same problem a some time ago, so I designed this thing.
The aspects which make this resume design superior than some others is that it is a single color design, it can be xeroxed/photocopy-ed but more importantly, it doesn’t take much time to be studied. Bosses usually don’t like it when they have to study a lot.
Monday, February 18, 2013
Facts, Facts, Facts: The Anatomy of a Successful Resume (Infographic)
No matter whether you are seeking for a nine-to-five or whether you want to get that freelance job. It is always inevitable to make the best possible impression, be it on an employer or a client. How this best impression can be planned and crafted is the subject of a recent infographic. NowSourcing, internet marketers by profession, have put it together for TopCounselingSchool.org. If you are sitting over the papers, trying to write your resume, push them aside and read on…
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Most Creative Resume Designs of All Times
These days freelancing has become a major source of income for people all over the world. The designers are getting the most out of it due to their creativity and clever thinking.
Its an age of competition and due to that reason it is very difficult for new designers to get freelance jobs. The one thing that will be a big step towards success is a creative and impact full resume design. A clever and creative resume design will ensure that your resume will not only been seen but it will be also considered.
Now how your resumes should look like? For that reason we have collected some of the most amazingly designed resumes for your inspiration, take a look at all of them and get inspired. Also don’t forget to share with your friends. May be they can get a job just because of you. Enjoy!
Saturday, February 2, 2013
15 Inspiring Design Resumes
When you’re applying for a job, there is nothing more important than your resume to get you noticed. Before an interviewer or prospective client ever lays eyes on you, their first port of call is your resume. It’s your way of making contact, your introduction, and as such should be an extension of you. First impressions count, and when it comes to design, we all judge a book by its cover.
In an industry where Photoshop skills are two a penny, and everyone and their grandma knows CS6 inside out, your resume needs to put you head and shoulders above the rest. The masses may have the skills, but you need to flaunt your creativity, and one of the most overlooked places to do this is your resume.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
7 Great Resume Tips for Graphic Designers
So, you’re a graphic designer, and you have some amazing skills and talent to offer a potential employer. How do you stand out from all the other graphic designers applying for the position as well though? How do you create a resume that will actually get you a call back? Here are seven great tips that will help your resume shine.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Now create infographic resumes with Visually
As images keep dominating the web through various uploads of personal photos on social sites like Facebook or Instagram to social image bookmarking sites like Pinterest. We love sharing our interests. As much as we love sharing, we love learning and the faster the better. That is why visual data such as infographics have been such a popular source to gain knowledge from with little to no hassle of retaining it within our minds.
People naturally associate images better with words and are able to remember visually more so than without images, it is why brands have logo’s and profiles have avatars. Our digital education is progressing and as we now can learn many things within one infographic about a subject, we too can learn a variety of subjects from in-depth to mundane information in a matter of minutes.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Common Mistakes on a Graphic Designer’s Resume
Resumes are the first step towards creating a long lasting impression on your prospective employer and by long lasting I certainly mean a good one! Bad impressions don’t stay in the mind of employers for more than a few seconds. Many talented and hardworking designers find their CVs’ rotting in a dustbin. This is common particularly between amateur designers looking for their first job. Even if your work is off the hook and simply astonishing, the chances of you being hired by any firm hit a rock if your resume is not up to the professional standard. However have we ever wondered that why do their resumes get tossed in the bin?
Monday, September 24, 2012
How to Design a Killer Infographic Resume
When it comes to resume design, it can be hard to stand out from the crowd while remaining succinct and clear. A set of bold and attractive visuals can take you to the next level, but they also take the space that should probably be devoted to information. So why not combine the two?
Infographic resumes can be a sophisticated way to show off your abilities and give yourself an edge over the competition. Infographics might not be your forté, but only a few considerations distance them from other kinds of design. Just keep a few things in mind...
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
25 excellent design resumes
When we all graphic designers to study and prepare for work the first thing to do is put together a good resume, is where we put all the information and experience and contact, design programs that we use and that we are more skilled if we want to emphasize we must make a good design that is why, that we stake our creative.
Thursday, August 30, 2012
25 excellent design resumes
When we all graphic designers to study and prepare for work the first thing to do is put together a good resume, is where we put all the information and experience and contact, design programs that we use and that we are more skilled if we want to emphasize we must make a good design that is why, that we stake our creative.
Saturday, July 21, 2012
30 Unusual Resume Designs for Your Inspiration
In this round up, we are showcasing a collection of some fresh and interesting artistic and extremely unusual resume designs that will surely increase your chances of getting your utmost desired job. This showcase will highlight the creative aspect of designing a resume.
Well, as a matter of fact many of us do not like these types of resumes as a resume tends to be simple and less distracted. Many of you may think that you do not hire such people who are submitting resumes like this; nevertheless this is just a showcase for your inspiration.
In my opinion, people like minimalist and not too much eye-catching designs although there are some actually magnificent resumes for your inspiration. You can drop a comment letting us know about your resume.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Creative Graphic Resume Designs Which Will Amaze You - 53 Examples
Having a creative resume design as a designer of any sort is a must. As well as your portfolio, it shows that you are creative, full of wonderful ideas and equipped with a ton of imagination. While these won’t work for a lawyer, an economist or anything in that job spectrum, for designers they are ideal.
In this article there are over 50 examples of creative curriculum vitae for inspiration from graphic designers created in Photoshop or Illustrator, but the idea can be adapted to various types of designers. For example, a web designer can create his CV with the help of CSS, HTML and some jQuery to make it dynamic and attractive, whereas a Flash designer could use… well, Flash.
Friday, March 23, 2012
25+ Smashing Examples of Resume Designs
A Resume (CV) is a document that contains a summary of relevant job experience and education for specific employment search. A resume (CV) can either make or break your application as a potential employee. This flimsy one-page document is more important than many people think: the resume is the first portfolio piece that potential employers see, and if they’re not impressed, chances are they won’t look at the rest of your portfolio. The first thing you should do before making your Resume is that you should look some creative Resumes as a source of inspiration. Make sure you do give enough time to make creative Resume because its really important for your job hunt. So here, I have a showcase of attractive Resume (CV) designs for your inspiration. I hope it may help you in making your own Resume.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
5 Tips To Improve Your Résumé
Have you ever thought that the reason behind you not getting any design jobs is not the amount of skills you have, but the résumé you send to companies? Think that when companies post job openings hundreds of applications come in day by day and the HR manager needs to sort the bad ones out first. What if your résumé, even if you are a great designer, fails to make the second round?
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
45 Most Creative Resume Ideas
A resume represents your work experience and working skills. Whenever you apply for a new job you need to show your work to the employer. This is the reason a resume should present your work and working skills in a better way. Those are the older days when people used to create a really simple resume with their qualification and work experience. In today’s time people try to give the creative touch to their resumes so they can impress the employer on their first impression. If you are a designer then it become more necessary that your resume should be creative because creativity if the thing that every employer want in their designer. In this post I am going to showcase some really creative resume ideas to inspire you to create more innovative and creative resumes.
Friday, January 13, 2012
Creative Resumes That Put Yours To Shame
A simple resume is no longer enough. Although a CV is still a place where you store information about your professional background, nowadays you need a little extra creativity to get noticed. It’s no longer about the information included, but about the presentation and how you “sell” yourself to the employer.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
55 Examples of Light and Clean Resume Designs
Have a creative resume is important, because it will speaks your capability and cretivity. And clean design it will give a professional, clean impression to employer.
In this showcase article we have collected 55 examples of creative resume with clean design style, I hope they will inspire you in designing your own creative resume that represent yourself.