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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
Put yourself in a potential employers shoes, what would you want to see? How would you feel after reading that? |
Probably the worst example you could have given. |
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| boris_the_bear |
| Your resume should be written in 48px bold red type so that employers know you're fine in the head ;) |
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| ziptnf |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
I'm modifying based on advice.. there is something called good advice and something called advice I don't plan on taking. |
IGK and Jay are posting advice that you shouldn't plan on taking. You totally ignored Capitalizt and Moral Hazard's advice. Why? It's good advice. You don't need to include your paper route and lawn mowing service, relationship status (trust me, it doesn't ing matter), Grandmother Reiki Master or Hypnotist , or any goofy pictures you took with your webcam.
If you are serious about going into a professional career, you should really take the advice some of these members are giving. Make your resume LOOK professional, not like something you threw together in Notepad. Also, get a picture of yourself taken by a real camera, by a real photographer. Wear a suit or something, and clean up your hair.
Seriously, if you don't take any of this advice, you are delusional, crazy, and naive. |
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| jonSun |
| I still think you should include your topless pics & apply for bra modeling jobs. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by Acton
Put yourself in a potential employers shoes, what would you want to see? How would you feel after reading that? |
Few potential employers would bother reading that. Trust me, I shred a lot of resumes. |
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| Moral Hazard |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Also, get a picture of yourself taken by a real camera, by a real photographer. |
NO, no, no pictures on a resume!:whip: |
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| Moral Hazard |
| You know what... just for fun I'm going to send this resume to some of my colleagues and regional VP... see what they have to say. |
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| bas |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
NO, no, no pictures on a resume!:whip: |
Yeah what the is wrong with you? Why the hell would you ever attach a picture to your resume? When I worked for a temp agency me and my coworkers would laugh our asses off at all the plebs that attached a picture. So ing funny. |
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| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by Moral Hazard
Few potential employers would bother reading that. Trust me, I shred a lot of resumes. |
That's where I was going, it would just be a waste of time reading it. Unless you own a circus. |
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| jonSun |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Yeah what the is wrong with you? Why the hell would you ever attach a picture to your resume? When I worked for a temp agency me and my coworkers would laugh our asses off at all the plebs that attached a picture. So ing funny. |
hey hey, what about bartenders |
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| Sunsnail |
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| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by ziptnf
Grandmother Reiki Master or Hypnotist , |
You have no idea what kind of employers ******** is looking for, and just because you don't know what Reiki is doesn't mean it makes sense to throw stones at it. I always prefer well rounded, independent people to cookie cutter types (as long as they aren't dangerous, arrogant, s, or bad employees as a result of their difference) My point is basically - the Reiki qualification is fine, regardless if you think ******** is insane. It may even be helpful in his particular search for employment, you have no idea.
You never know if your interviewer's mom is undergoing Reiki therapy for cancer.
Also relationship status - obviously ******** has thought through what he wants to do - he has a clear objective stated in the resume, and he has included relationship status for a good reason.
My advice as a graphic designer would be:
- Only use the condensed font for headings, use an easy-to-read font for the body, in general make a clear distinction between heading and body text. You only need one or two transformations of the text to make it work - ie, if you can transform the heading by making it larger, bolding it, underlining it, making it all-caps, you should pick 1-2 of these transformations only.
- I think the headings are too big if you need that many separate headings. In general, try to make it concise and have as much fit on the initial page view as you can.
- Line up all of the headings and paragraphs, it looks very raggedy currently, particularly the education.
- Use only one set of bullet points.
- Use only one picture. Probably the bottom picture if you had to choose one of those.
otherwise, maybe change 'training' to 'certifications' - everything else seems logical and good to me. |
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