Having learned some of the general tips about how to write a good CV, I now want to get started with CV designs.

Initial mistakes

At the start of my CV design journey, I made one really big mistake. As I wanted to get my CV done as fast as possible to apply for jobs, I started to design my cv without prior research on CV design. Worst yet, to save time, I thought it would be okay to design my CV through a CV template on Word;

I soon realised that it was not going to work. No matter how hard I try to fix it, the templates given by Word look a little out of date and tacky. I also realised that the templates in Word give off a very obvious “Template” feel and are properly overused.

I concluded that Word templates are definitely not suitable for designing CVs to compete for jobs in the creative field. I also understood at this point that I needed to research CV designs to understand better what sort of layout I wanted in my CV.

Looking at creative CV

At first, I search for “creative CVs” on google. I thought that since I'm looking for a design role and wanted to add some personality to my CV, I should look at sample CVs from other creatives.

However, a lot of the CVs that I found was just a bit “too creative”; nevertheless, they were amazing to look at;

I did wonder about the readability of these CVs. Even though they presented a very nice visual, I felt that it was too hard to read and too crowded. Perhaps these CVs were made for specific jobs/purposes, or simply just for display. These are not suitable for me as I’m looking for something a bit cleaner and more general.