owenpeery.com - My resumé and CV site
I have been working like crazy on my CV/resumé. I made it into a site with a blog area where I plan to talk about current professional development I am undergoing or just things to improve professionally that I am doing. It has an English and a French version, the French version might need some help, and a printer friendly version in both languages. I am sick of looking at it and would love some opinions about it. I can’t really give up yet because it is full recruiting season here and I have had a few interviews so I want to finish it so I can sit back and send out the link a bunch. I need to add more to the blog part but how does the rest look? Anything missing or not look quite right, in the eyes of a potential employer? Something to add or take out? Be nice but critical.
I checked out your resume and it seemed rather impressive to me, but I have never made out a resume. Nor have I ever applied for a position where I needed one, so I’m not qualified to use the red pencil. As I stated, I found it impressive and to the point. isn’t that what most employers want?
I hope that’s what they want, the printer friendly version is even more to the point, that’s the one I give out when they request a hard copy, no frills, just the scannable copy. We’ll see.
The online resumé is a great idea, and yours is certainly impressive. The only “advice” I might choose to give would be to turn the Quick CV page into an overview of your whole CV (personal details, technical skills, education, etc), so that employers could get a general idea of what you’re about even if they choose not to click through to the rest (many of them are busy people). The detailed list of technical skills could move to another dedicated page. Just my two cents, good luck!
I was struggling with how much to have on a quick CV. I decided for the shorter version so that when I went to job fairs and such in person the CV I gave would be only one page, and I was lazy and wanted that same one page CV to be the printer friendly version. On my old resume my technical skills were on another page. Thanks for the thought, many things to think about.
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They look good! I’d advise you to get someone French, preferably a working professional, to review your French version for spelling, grammar, and idiomatic peculiarities (an example: l’instruction quotidian should be l’instruction quotidienne).
Good luck!
Thanks Walt for the feedback
The funny thing is that I have a few French friends who told me repeatedly that it would be simple to review and fix but they never got around to it and now I have gotten feedback about the French part from a few bilingual Americans. Not what I expected, strange.
If I were an employer and read your resume, I would be positively impressed.
I am probably not an expert in how one writes a CV in English, but there were a few things I thought about when having a look at your resume.
I haven’t seen any personal data on your site. Like a date of birth, your photo, etc. I don’t know if you skipped that on purpose. However, I think an employer might be interested in some general information about you. Besides, experts say that people tend to pay more attention to and better remember a CV with a photo of a person.
It might be an idea to mention your hobbies and interests – this gives an impression about your personality in general, and some serious employers are paying attention to this.
May be you could do a “section” with your personal details, like the sections about your education, and etc.
When you write about your web design experience, it can be an idea to give links to web pages that you have designed, so that an employer could immediately click on them and see what you have already done.
I think a darker background colour for the right side of the page with Categories, Archives, etc. (at my monitor it appears almost white) could give the page a more clear “visual structure”, highlight your CV and make a reader focus on it.
Good luck!
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