CREATIVE CV

Today, Paulin Ascroft came in to give us a seminar on careers and work experience. She also spoke about CVs and how to go about creating one for our particular field.

She went onto explain that as we are on a course that requires us to be creative our CVs are able to express that and so we can create a CV how ever we wanted.

Our CV is an expression of ourself but we also need to take into consideration who we are targeting. We should make a visual impact with our CVs and it should grab peoples attention, it should be different. 

Paulin then went onto explain the breakdown of what should be included on our CV. 

First of all our qualifications need to be included. Our A levels and results and the dates in which we took these. 

She also explained that we need to state that we are a BA Hons Illustration student and not just simply that we are an illustration student. It is also important to give the full name of the university that we attended. 

We could add any achievements or additional information that we thought relevant and helpful in showing that we could be the right person for the job. These could include industry related work experience, things that we have done at university. Other things could also include published work, awards, languages and competitions.

Next, she explained what contact details to included. Our name, big and bold, address, telephone number and email. She also mentioned that we could put our blog on our CVs too however, if we were to do this, we needed to make sure that our blog was up to date. 

Our profile had to included, three to four punchy, focused selling points or skills that we acquire. 

Paulin also made it very clear that we should make every word count!

I also learnt about the differences between a conventional and creative CV. 

The differences include:

CONVENTIAL 

• 2 Pages maximum 
• Plain
• Logical “flow”

CREATIVE 

• 1/2 Pages or 3D
• Use of colour 
• Focus on creative skills 
• More than one typeface 
• Include visuals 
• Webpage 
• YouTube CV

If we were to create or CV using one of the alternatives such as the webpage or YouTube, we would need to make sure that it is easy to find online.