What's the general opinion on applicants who don't send a traditional CV?
Personally, I've never bothered too much printing my skills on paper or putting them inside a PDF. I've gotten most of my jobs by sending an informal application via email with links to my portfolio, and maybe give a short phone call to check that application was received.
As a person looking through job applications, I would honestly rank people with more creative ways of proving their skills higher than those who email me a basic A4 made with Microsoft Word.
I would honestly rank people with more creative ways of proving their skills higher than those who email me a basic A4 made with Microsoft Word.
Indeed! I've got my CV as a GitHub repo - you can choose the format yourself!
But, more broadly, I'd turn the question around: if you wanted to make a fair comparison of a hundred CVs, would you be pleased when one of them looked completely different to the rest, or annoyed?
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What's the general opinion on applicants who don't send a traditional CV?
Personally, I've never bothered too much printing my skills on paper or putting them inside a PDF. I've gotten most of my jobs by sending an informal application via email with links to my portfolio, and maybe give a short phone call to check that application was received.
As a person looking through job applications, I would honestly rank people with more creative ways of proving their skills higher than those who email me a basic A4 made with Microsoft Word.
Indeed! I've got my CV as a GitHub repo - you can choose the format yourself!
But, more broadly, I'd turn the question around: if you wanted to make a fair comparison of a hundred CVs, would you be pleased when one of them looked completely different to the rest, or annoyed?