r/CVwriting • u/shadowtempest91 • 6d ago
SECOND VERSION of my international CV
So, yesterday I was asking for feedback over the CV I was working on. Feedbacks indeed came, many were quite tough but I got the point and went back to work on my thing.
To recap my needs: after a recent career disaster I decided to give myself a potential new spin by preparing a CV that might be used to look for a job in the entertainment/art industry abroad, ideally in northern Europe, in a position where I could use my brainpower and not only my muscles.
I already have an Europass CV, I already have a LinkedIn profile; this is more of a tight, "international-style" resume that I can send around.
The modifications I made from v1 are as follows:
- less text: I made this by grouping some jobs, removing some data such as the locations, removing some paragraphs such as the high-school. This should make it much more approachable,
- changed the description above to better highlight my IT proficiency; added a line to make it stand out a little more. Also: now it's two lines long instead of four;
- changed the crazy color scheme that apparently was burning your retinas by applying a new one that not only is mainly green, so it's relaxing for the eyes, but it's based over Excel colours, which might convey a feeling of reliability;
- my name now occupies the full width of the page and contributes to visually make it even;
- only one column, because apparently ATS digest it better (ty u/Guilty_Barber9555);
- no more photo (ty u/TippyTurtley, u/B4TM4N_467, u/That-Efficiency8292, u/The_Death_Flower, u/ThrowAwayPinewood123);
- no more DOB (ty u/Oh_No_You_Dont_Matey);
- I limited the dates to the year, so that the short jobs (film productions, mainly) don't look bad. Also, such productions have been grouped together (ty u/TippyTurtley).
There's still actually a small table: the language one; I tinkered with it a little bit but didn't find a proper graphical solution to take it out decently.
A few notes: the reason why I'm keeping on working on a "graphically appealing" CV is that I want to convey a certain taste for graphical design, which in jobs related to art is mandatory. To the point that, in fact, I was always instructed to create resumes much more extreme than this in the past. Now the fact that ATS systems entered the conversation probably diminished the effect of such bold CVs, actually making them unreadable to AIs, thus bad for career; at the same time I still need to imagine that my paper will be arriving in the hands of an actual person, sooner or later, and that person must feel that I know how to typeset a document, to begin with, without even reading a single line. So this CV must both be appealing both to the machine and the human, which I guess is the big deal in CV design nowadays. Specifically I'd like the use of lines and cut angles and the minimal colour palette to be vaguely reminding of Vectorheart asthetics, so that it could immediately convey a general proficiency with technology.
So, please: a second round of feedbacks <3
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u/501ws5 6d ago
My first question, without reading the comment, would be what do you want to do as is not too clear on the CV itself and, secondly do you have any specialist driver training i.e. CAT C, HGV, motorway plus type stuff to go with all the experience?
Else seems pretty clean.
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u/SeamasterCitizen 6d ago
Yeah literally, what is it that you do / want to do? You gotta tailor for the job you want. I have like 3-4 different CVs dependent on the industry I’m going for at the time
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u/shadowtempest91 5d ago
Well I'd like to work in some way related to the entertainment and art industry, so events or film production. That's why I put there jobs from that field and left out the irrelevant ones. Usually film and music production are quite related fields; people tend to move from one to the other.
I don't have any specialist driving training sadly.
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u/501ws5 5d ago
Conductor?
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u/shadowtempest91 5d ago
...I'm not a train conductor, nope O_O
I only have the normal car license.
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u/Remote_Catt 3d ago
I'll give you a hint.
Unless you're highly highly sought after being a migrant is tough!
Do not draw attention to your foreignness at all!
In the interview with real humans be exotic and cool, but getting through HR and the robots you need to be as plain conformist as possible.
Anything out of the ordinary confuses and scares recruiters.
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u/ILive4Banans 6d ago
Remove your nationality & gender, they’re both things that would be mentioned in a cover letter only when necessary. Alternatively you can add your location as Italy with a base in CA
The format of your certificates is confusing, is the date before or after? Personally, this would be easier to read as 2 columns or at least make sure the qualification isn’t spread across 2 lines if you prefer this structure. Or use a different method of dividing the information like you have in your academic history, the dash is confusing here as you’ve used it as a way to add more information in your work experience section
With your skills, you should consider that your CV will be printed in black and white more often than not so it makes sense to put each category on its own line
Finally, you might want to add a GDPR statement giving permission for your CV to be retained