[vladstudio]

Question for HR's and hiring managers (target audience for resumes) – what actually makes a resume worth reading? Are there any publicly available resumes that you can reference as a great example? I suspect that design has little to do with it.

(I'm re-building my own resume/portfolio/website, so I'm genuienly interested :-) )

[bastijn]

Not a recruiter or HR but do read quite some CVs nonetheless. My take for software engineering:

* keep it simple. I want to scan your CV in a minute or two to see if it is worth reading. Skip the fancy fonts, images, charts or flowers etc.

* I typically go work experience > recommendations/achievements if any > summary/profile > name, stop. If I'm not having my next meeting in 5 minutes I may go education, remainder I often not read. (sorry)

* I find skills and education worthless often and skip when I'm in a hurry. People inflate skills and using a skill in a 5 person company is very different from an enterprise. Education these days doesn't say much in Europe. No top colleges like MIT.

Often the only thing that really matters to me is work experience. It allows me to judge if you're used to our kind and size of problems. In a talk I'll learn how fast you can learn.

That having said. I can imagine for a design related job you want people to express themselves on their CV.

[denysvitali]

Put some effort in your CV (no misaligned stuff, profile pictures upside down, self-evalulation of skills with all the stars filled), but most importantly, don't lie.

Everything else is secondary, IMHO.

Oh yes, I can't stand those European CV templates, but that's just personal opinion. I'd rather read one CV formatted with one of those ugly templates than one with one of the issues mentioned above.