Comments on: Beautiful Resume Designs

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:59:19 +0000

Steve is right. Seth was talking about candidates who are demonstrating their tremendous skill publicly. They will have people bending over backwards to get them for their talent, but few people are able to put themselves into that kind of situation (assuming they want to, of course).

For everyone else, resume/CV/some sort of bio will always be necessary to bring other people up to speed about you in a very quick way.

Incidentally, I recently posted another back of beautiful resumes:

38 More Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work – http://jobmob.co.il/blog/more-beautiful-resume-ideas-that-work/

By: Steve Davies

Steve Davies — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:25:30 +0000

Unless you are talking to someone who knows you and your reputation, and who can make a decision him or herself, you need a resume. So in 99% of the cases, you will need a resume at some point, even if it’s just to fill in the details to the message that you’ve already sold them on in your meeting or interview.

These designs are nice, and a good counterpoint to the “fill in the blanks and we’ll generate your resume” approaches.

By: Elina

Elina — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:19:13 +0000

If you think you are “remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular”, likely you are not.

By: Nate Moller

Nate Moller — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 04:54:23 +0000

I read a really good article yesterday by Seth Godin, one of the best on and offline marketers and actually someone you have on your blogroll…

He said this:

I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all.

So I guess the question is, do you really need a “Beautiful Resume Design” to cover up for your lack of effectiveness or are you just asking to get rejected by taking lots of time to “stand out from the rest” who will probably get hired over you? Just wondered…