How to make a creative resume

How to create a resume that is sure to attract the attention of the employer? Several useful tips in this article.

Since this issue has become very close to me, I decided to write an article which will share practical tips for creating a creative brief (examples of such summary can be viewed here).

I want to clarify that this is not a regular review of the coolest job, but it is advice on their creation.

Why even make your CV creative

This approach has many disadvantages:

• Not all employers understand this.
• It takes time to search for ideas and development.
• It takes time (and possibly money) for the next PR on the Internet.
• Many experiences: Do you deem cool and unusual or, on the contrary, will be for frivolous fool?
• If you are I am not confident and afraid of active attention and criticism, it is better not to start, it will be a lot.
• It is not suitable for all disciplines.

But there are pluses:

• Chief among the advantages - it is inappropriate screening your company. If people do not like the style of your presentation, humor, pictures of boobs and they consider it a "obozhemoynepriemlimo!", Then you are going to work with them is unlikely. Thus, even before the interview with the company eliminated the dull and save your time. Therefore, when writing a creative job, I recommend to be yourself and do not be afraid to close up any meme or a pair of ridiculous photos, if you do not understand - so do not understand.
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• If you have little experience, and we have to somehow stand out from the pile of the same "experts", it is the best option.
• Increases coverage. If your resume light up a little bit in a professional environment, the proposal will go to a bunch of (including stupid) and will have to choose you, that you will agree, is much more pleasant.
• Meet new people in a professional environment.
• Employers' preference is always given more vivid personalities, they all want to work with interesting and funny people, and not with the boring;
• attitude the interview better, you know, smile and ask how the successes which the company has responded, and what you are generally well done. Chapeau always begins with inquiries about your resume, and it allows you to slightly reduce the initial voltage.
• employees often also look at your resume, so the collective attitude is inherently more friendly.
• It's damn fun! In addition, it is one of the few things that you can do entirely as he sees fit :)

How to make a creative resume

• On the most creative of course difficult to give any practical advice. See more examples of how and inspiring as possible.
• Look for non-standard platforms and media: a page in the social network, video, twitter, banner, his own body, contextual advertising, song, food, a screenshot of the desktop / game summary in the form of the code in javascript, etc. By the way, my first resume was made, as the profile for Me to mamba.ru.
• Humor is very desirable, the resume should be a fun and interesting. Well, if it's any professional humor. But do not overdo it, the humor may take no more than 10-20% of all information.
• Stories sell. Tell me something about yourself, tell about how you got into this profession or that made life tough. Open Source, conferences, social activities, helping the kindergarten, you can even the story of a fictional reality.
• To resume has gone viral, do not forget to make it a bit provocative. For example, I specifically wrote that he resigned from his previous job and flew holiday in India for six months because he wanted the emotions of the reader. Of course, this reduces the chances of finding work as a whole, but it increases the chances of finding a cool company.
• Be sure to read and take into account the generally accepted advice on resume writing (for example, here)
• Well, the last piece of advice - not really listen to friends and mom :) Listen only to yourself, because you sell it yourself, not them. To all, they are not the target audience of your resume. Constantly keep the image of a person's head, for which you create a job, I can imagine his thoughts when viewing your resume. Just imagine that you're a little psychic reading :) There should be created a clear sense that your goal is not to "get a work "and" to work in his company, to work together with him, "get a job - it is not an end but only the beginning of all action.

to develop advice

• Summary in English looks stylish, plus the interview in English in general no one hurts, read out in absentia. If the company no one understands in English, then she is eliminated by itself. It is a very controversial issue, but let's say - it depends on the specialty.
• If this site, then pick up the interesting domain, if there is a specific company in which you metish, do not take pity on a couple of bucks and register for her domain, for example: hochuvgoogle.ru or if you know the name of the person making the decision, it can be anything in the spirit: vitalyanaymimenya.rf. Then the target audience exactly look your resume, if you see of course.
• Do not make it big: the time spent with a resume should be no more than 2-3 minutes - this is the maximum! If this presentationThen limit its 10-13 slides. No need to pull the snot, just get to the point: the people who have opened your resume is usually already know what you are looking for a job.
• At the end be sure to specify a reference to the usual, formal written resume. Well as links to profiles in professional social networks (LinkedIn, My Circle)
• Indicate whether links to profiles in the usual social networks? The issue is also controversial, and everyone decides it for himself. Now all the normal browsing of profiles in social networks of their candidates, so you should bring order, just as important to see the search results for your name. In his summary, I pointed out Facebook and Twitter, but did not specify VKontakte.
• If this is a site that itself place social buttons (Like, +1, "I like", etc.) in the text to ask people to click on these buttons, think of something fun, why should they do it. Just bear in mind that 80% clicked on the Tweet will leave the text unchanged, so in advance to think about it.
• Title tags are very important and Decription, most social networks will tighten this very information in the description of the post.
• If your job is somehow related to web development, then do not forget the site code, Interested people will be there to look. The code should be not only beautiful and competent, but also there can be slapped a few jokes or ASCII-art;

Promotion Council

• Creative resume live for 2-3 days, so that all your resources to promote the need to fire a single volley. If people see the same summary sluggish PR here and there, for 3 weeks, it seems that people do not need anyone. Therefore, it is evil. Your goal - a bright flash and a hope for a viral effect.
• In advance make a list of people to whom you could ask to evaluate your resume (no need to ask, "write about me," ask evaluate resumes, assess the non-standard approach) It should be notable people in your field, it is good if you're a little bit with them familiar. Write 1-2 people from the list, and if they like your resume, ask them to make a Share or Tweet. If you do not like it, remodel it or in general to hammer on all this nonsense and go on to play Diablo III :)
• Take the quality, rather than quantity. Social networks do not like spam, so try to write to each person individually, and not dully copy-paste the same thing, for this you can block.
• If you have friends (that's good), and among them are the owners or the authors of what some thematic resources, ask them to write about your resume.
• At home on the pages as well publish the news that you are looking for work, with reference to your resume and ask all your friends to Like.
• Write leading sites in its field and in the field of job search. If by that time someone from notable people / sites about you've already written, then do not hesitate to point this out.
• Write to foreign websites (if your resume in English), it will give a huge boost to its promotion. Our sites are very willing to write about anything if it wrote their foreign counterparts.
• If you have some money, order contextual advertising in search engines on behalf of the Director or the name of the organization to which you want to go.
• Do not forget TwitterIt is a great source of traffic. Write funny Public Reply several thematic accounts, but again, do not try to spam! 1-3 spot-kick in the day, not more.
• Heed to the choice of time for the publication of your CV (here there is a good infographics about this theme)

conclusion

Oh, and many more would like to write, but the size of the article is already critical, so if you have any questions - I'm happy to answer them.

More would like to show summaries, which eventually turned out at me - 14zy.ru. Summary I published June 7, on the first day it has gained 1,000 views, I tweeted HeadHunter, written by different people and in the end I got a bunch of interesting interviews for the whole week ahead. At the moment, a dream job has already been found, it remains to agree on some details :)

Good luck!