Creative
Resumes
by
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What fun to be in an industry
where almost anything goes! In advertising and the arts, you have a license to
be creative with your résumé. After all, creativity is one of your strongest
qualifications for the job. It is the need for this creativity that determines
when résumés like the ones in this chapter are appropriate. Using a creative
résumé takes a very special type of person. They are not for accountants,
bankers, and executives.
Needless to say, these résumés
are not scannable, but the chances of a gallery, museum, graphic art firm, or
ad agency scanning your résumé are almost nonexistent. Scannability in creative
industries is not an issue in almost all cases. When scannability is an issue,
simply create an ASCII text file résumé and send it along with your creative
version (see the Scannable Resume Design Guide).
No matter how creative you want
to be, you must still keep readability in mind. If your audience can't read
your résumé, what good is it?
Here I most gratefully
acknowledge the work of Gregg Berryman. I have in my library a copy of his
book, Designing Creative Résumés (Menlo Park, CA: Crisp Publications, Inc.,
1985). His book is a great resource for creative résumé ideas and, although it
is out of print at this writing, it can be found in many city libraries.
From
Designing the Perfect Resume,by Pat Criscito.
Copyright 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Barron's Educational
Series, Inc.
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