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.