6 Resume Tips For Creatives
A resume is crucial for anyone looking to be hired, and serves as a summary of your work experience, project experience, and skills on one sheet of paper. Although most resumes follow the same format and guidelines some aspects of a creative professional’s resume will differ from the standard. The following tips should help you start thinking about your personal resume creation and what you can add and subtract to create an amazing resume that will hopefully get you noticed.
Limit Yourself
Try to eliminate the extra “fluff” that you may see yourself adding. You do not need to include all of your work experience from your entire life. Try to include the four work experiences or project experiences that are most relevant to what you are applying for. White space is not necessarily a bad thing so don’t be afraid to leave some room for the eye to rest rather than chalking your resume full of things that are not really applicable to the job.
Be Different, but not too Different
When applying for a job in a creative field you will have more creative leeway when it comes to creating your resume. This means that you can have a bit more fun when in regard to the design and layout, as long as it remains professional. A little creativity is great, but too much creativity can draw attention away from the content, which is the most important part. To view extremely creative resume layouts that are still professional and content focused check out the following link: impeccably designed resumes.
Make Your Introductory Statement or Objective Stand Out
Starting your resume with a strong intro that states something along the lines of what you seek and what you hope to offer is a great way to help the viewer understand what you are looking for and who you are. This will be one of your initial attention grabbers, so make sure it is concise and well written so it makes a good first impression. It should be modified so it clearly relates to the position you are applying for without sounding fake.
Include Relevant and up to Date Skills
Although you may have dozens of great skills try to narrow what you put on your resume down to the ones that relate to what you are applying to, are highly sought after, or are extremely unique. Listing everything can take the focus away from where you really shine, so keeping it recent and relevant it the best approach to take.
Organize in Reverse Chronological Order
Put your most recent work experience at the top of your resume and work your way down. This is the best and most common way of resume structure and organization. This will give whoever is viewing it a better idea of what you have currently been doing and how you got to this point. Also people are more likely to view what comes first rather than last so this means that your most recent work experience will definitely be seen. For people applying for more senior positions and have a lot of varied experience, consider grouping experience under functional headings, for example, Teaching Experience.
Keep it to One Page
Some individuals may think that they need more than one page for their resume, but, when created in the correct format and manner, you should have no issue keeping your resume concise and to a single page. A single page resume is what most individuals will be expecting when they ask for one. The caveat here is for senior positions, two to three pages may be okay, depending on the position and your experience.
Conclusion
There are obviously many more pointers and steps to creating an amazingly successful resume. We believe that the tips above will help you create a solid resume foundation that you can hopefully build from and eventually come to a great final product. Overall you should create a resume that is unique, professional, recent and relevant. By applying all of these characteristics to your resume you should set yourself up for success. For more resume helpful hints check out the link: 43 resume tips, which focuses on general resume creation but has some great tips.
Sources:
http://blog.creativelive.com/best-resume-tips-creatives/
https://www.themuse.com/advice/43-resume-tips-that-will-help-you-get-hired
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