Becky Moore Creative CV

On the 22nd November Becky Moore came to talk to us about how to update and create a professional creative CV.

A cv is a celebration of your achievements and share your experiences, its a marketing brochure or advert - a way of selling yourself and make a first impression.

CV content

• quick concise content

• professional email, social media and portfolio site

• profile - short introduction, why you're great, the purpose of this CV and tailored

• skills, extras not covered in your experience

• Employability experiences - where have you been where do you want to go?

• be specific

Additional things to remember

• personal details like date of birth and gender don't need to be on there

• if your going to have designs on there keep it relativity plain and they are subjective

• remember people will only look at a CV they tend to only spend 20-30 seconds

• recent stuff first then go backwards

• remember to talk about soft skills - skills that are transferable

• avoid acronyms as not everyone will know what they mean

• avoid bar charts as it can make you look worse than you are

• you can have great content and frame it with your creativity

• its not just about what you have on your CV its where you put it and who can see it

don't be negative

don't list all your GCSE

Profile Statement

• a short positive paragraph about yourself

• Focus on YOUR strengths and qualities, inspiration and aspirations

• Introduce the rest of your CV

• updated it to match the job you are applying for

• make sure the profile statement is tailored

• keep it relevant and concise - 3-5 sentence's

• ask yourself 'so what'

• keep it factual

• list achievements rather than replicating a job description

• talk positively and enthusiastically

• use persuasive language

avoid phrases

• I always give 110%

• I am am out going person

• I am a harding working and creative individual

We are all individual, just prove you are

What's a cover letter

• it is something employers will read before they decide to read your CV

• CV are more factual and the letter is a chance to be more playful

• your introduction

• AVIOD starting with 'I am writing' its to obvs

• be specific to the job and match your skills to what they are asking for

• 3-5 paragraphs long

• make them want to read more

We got told we can send our updated CV and send it to careers@pca.ac.uk

save it YOUR NAME CV.pdf and they will look over it and tell us how we can improve.

Just remember to not save it in pages as not everyone has pages.

Put your CV on LinkedIn - but don't list yourself as a student say you are a junior photographer. Create your cv first then create a LinkedIn account

Remember a lot of jobs aren't advertised - use social media to get a strong presence and people might contact you

£250 Undergraduate Industry Experience Bursary to use for travel, accommodation or dependant living to build your skills and knowledge