I decided to create my resume to fit my passion for Films & Fare in the style of a movie poster. Fran Ford Coco-Cola is ready to inspire and excite your local community!
I love how you created a movie poster to depict your resume! Details such as "An ICM Production" really display the level of creativity and thought you put into this assignment.
One suggestion is to possibly lessen the size of the body text. That way you can incorporate other areas such as education, and/or contact!
I agree with Ava Elise that this was such a creative way to go about your resume! Creating a movie poster and adding ICM details really shows your creative side.
I would definitely love to see more information about yourself - maybe how you feel in love with films or what type of background education you have. You could even add a place for co-stars and write about the people who have helped you get to where you are today!
This is a great start, but I feel that you are hiding some of your best qualities that a resume would want to see.
Before the Web, resumes were our biggest avatars and careers were our beat. Online, there are more ways to express ourselves and employ our interests.
A resume is another mix of author and audience, just like the about page. A poor resume is filled with a job-hunter’s goals and anxieties. A good resume is tailored to the needs of each individual HR department and the open position they hold.
Which is why I recommend drafts again, one set of rewrites to help you answer your questions about your future and another set to speak to the different employers you contact.
LinkedIn, or any Web-based resume, is a third version. It’s not tailored to any particular employer, but a live and mobile personal statement that should catch the right eyes when discovered. A Web presence expands on this third document with endless creative possibilities —if you are so motivated to pursue them.
A resume is also a timeline, a written document defining past actions and suggesting future ones. It’s our first step in this class between writing that is personal and passionate and writing that is applied and logical.
I’m happy you took the opportunity to focus the resume assignment on your pseudonym. A movie poster is more resume than one might think at first glance. There are plenty of places for writing to tell the story, from the feedback and recommendations of critics to a tagline that could summarize everything.
This draft clearly defines you for one purpose and audience. It helps you evaluate this version of yourself. Each of your movies and restaurants would have their own poster, but this is a poster for you, the director. You can create a resume for each project and one that corrals all of your projects together.
You have many elements of a good resume structure. Experience and skills are essential. A summary at the top that illustrates how you can fulfill the needs of a potential employer is always stronger than your objectives and your needs. A good resume is conscious of the audience and speaks to them like a good poster.
More than most visual designers, a filmmaker understands how words—a script—underpin good imagery. Which is why I think this could be stronger. It makes the attempt again to unite your two different but analogous worlds, but it doesn’t give us that tagline, “gut-busting blockbusters” aside. It doesn’t summarize the story—you—with that single image.
The experience section is the heart of a resume. Take a look at @JohnnyBradyQU’s resume for his road trip project, if you get a chance. It’s visual too, but it’s still mostly writing, and his experience section uses words to mark his growth, not just list his “jobs.” By listing your films and restaurants together and what each experience has taught you, you might find the words and expression to tie your worlds together.
When it comes to resumes, we tend to think broad and even vague is best, so we appear open to many jobs and clients. But recruiters rarely look for jacks-of-all-trades and you don’t want all those jobs anyway. Specifics engage the audience, whether it’s a good novel, or journalism, or you and your poster.
We’ve already seen how focusing on one beat improves your chances of an audience. Focusing on the specific experiences you’ve loved and the ones you want to pursue next—through a resume document’s writing—illustrates the unique skill set you want to highlight and that the right people will want to hire.
That’s how writing your avatars becomes taking your future into your own hands.
Hi Fran!
ReplyDeleteI love how you created a movie poster to depict your resume! Details such as "An ICM Production" really display the level of creativity and thought you put into this assignment.
One suggestion is to possibly lessen the size of the body text. That way you can incorporate other areas such as education, and/or contact!
Really nice job! :)
Hi Fran,
ReplyDeleteI agree with Ava Elise that this was such a creative way to go about your resume! Creating a movie poster and adding ICM details really shows your creative side.
I would definitely love to see more information about yourself - maybe how you feel in love with films or what type of background education you have. You could even add a place for co-stars and write about the people who have helped you get to where you are today!
This is a great start, but I feel that you are hiding some of your best qualities that a resume would want to see.
Before the Web, resumes were our biggest avatars and careers were our beat. Online, there are more ways to express ourselves and employ our interests.
ReplyDeleteA resume is another mix of author and audience, just like the about page. A poor resume is filled with a job-hunter’s goals and anxieties. A good resume is tailored to the needs of each individual HR department and the open position they hold.
Which is why I recommend drafts again, one set of rewrites to help you answer your questions about your future and another set to speak to the different employers you contact.
LinkedIn, or any Web-based resume, is a third version. It’s not tailored to any particular employer, but a live and mobile personal statement that should catch the right eyes when discovered. A Web presence expands on this third document with endless creative possibilities —if you are so motivated to pursue them.
A resume is also a timeline, a written document defining past actions and suggesting future ones. It’s our first step in this class between writing that is personal and passionate and writing that is applied and logical.
I’m happy you took the opportunity to focus the resume assignment on your pseudonym. A movie poster is more resume than one might think at first glance. There are plenty of places for writing to tell the story, from the feedback and recommendations of critics to a tagline that could summarize everything.
This draft clearly defines you for one purpose and audience. It helps you evaluate this version of yourself. Each of your movies and restaurants would have their own poster, but this is a poster for you, the director. You can create a resume for each project and one that corrals all of your projects together.
You have many elements of a good resume structure. Experience and skills are essential. A summary at the top that illustrates how you can fulfill the needs of a potential employer is always stronger than your objectives and your needs. A good resume is conscious of the audience and speaks to them like a good poster.
More than most visual designers, a filmmaker understands how words—a script—underpin good imagery. Which is why I think this could be stronger. It makes the attempt again to unite your two different but analogous worlds, but it doesn’t give us that tagline, “gut-busting blockbusters” aside. It doesn’t summarize the story—you—with that single image.
The experience section is the heart of a resume. Take a look at @JohnnyBradyQU’s resume for his road trip project, if you get a chance. It’s visual too, but it’s still mostly writing, and his experience section uses words to mark his growth, not just list his “jobs.” By listing your films and restaurants together and what each experience has taught you, you might find the words and expression to tie your worlds together.
When it comes to resumes, we tend to think broad and even vague is best, so we appear open to many jobs and clients. But recruiters rarely look for jacks-of-all-trades and you don’t want all those jobs anyway. Specifics engage the audience, whether it’s a good novel, or journalism, or you and your poster.
We’ve already seen how focusing on one beat improves your chances of an audience. Focusing on the specific experiences you’ve loved and the ones you want to pursue next—through a resume document’s writing—illustrates the unique skill set you want to highlight and that the right people will want to hire.
That’s how writing your avatars becomes taking your future into your own hands.
A good draft, Fran. Thanks for posting.