Assignment 1- CV Design Complete

Upon completion of my CV my next step is to develop my portfolio using both Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop

Assignment 1: The next step!- Development of my CV

After careful research of various portfolios and CV's, my step was to develop my own excellent designed CV. To do this, I used various examples I have researched to customise to my own preference.

Before I began, I decided on a colour scheme that I plan to use in relation to my cv and portfolio. I then decided on what fonts I would like to use and finally I decided on my skills and information I need to display on my CV.


Colours
The colour scheme I have chosen is a palette that contains, pinks, blue's, yellows and browns. I found this palette from colourlovers.com

Why Pink?

Overall, I plan to use the two shades of pink primarily for my cv and incorporate the various other colours into my portfolio. Pink is a combination of the colours red and white. Pink contains the need for action of red, helping to achieve potential success. With this CV I hope to successfully secure a job within the sector of Information Technology.

Fonts

The next decision was the fonts I would use on my CV. I decided on two fonts. These fonts are Delhi regular and Segoe UI Light.

Contents of CV

Finally, I decided on what information I thought was extremely important to include on a cv for potential employers. This information included:

• A basic summary about myself
• This summary will describe my latest education, past education and skills I have developed in the last few years
• General information
• General information will contain information on my location and age
• Education information
• Education information will contain information on my latest and previous course that I have completed. I also decided to include my awards of my degrees.
• Work Experience information
• My work experience includes information on my previous experience, location of this experience and the dates of these jobs
• My Interest
• To make my CV more personal, I decided to included a few of my interests. I will display these interests using infographics
• My Skills
• I will list my technical skills on my cv. This skills will also be displayed using infographics
• My Contact details
• My contact details will include my mobile number, my email address, my Behance link and my LinkedIn link.

To ensure my CV is eye-catching I have decided to use various info-graphics to make my cv look more quirky and professional. The software I plan to use is Adobe Photoshop. Once my cv is complete I will upload it to Behance and begin to develop my portfolio. 

Assignment 1: CV Design

The next step within the assignment was to research five excellently design CV's online. Once I research five excellent CV design I must update my own CV to ensure that all my education and work experience is up to date.

An excellent designed CV should include:

1. Personal contact details 
1. Phone number, email address, social media platforms including LinkedIn
2. Show off who you are and your personality
3. Do not include hard to read typography

Using a mixture of various websites including Behance and Pinterest I began my research. It was easy to find 5 excellently designed CV but it was extremely hard to pick just 5. The following are the CV I picked.

1. SMOG Creative CV, Miguel Rato, 2012

Reference: https://www.behance.net/gallery/3149770/SMOG-Creative-CV

Why is this CV design excellent?

• Order of contents
• Use of graphics
• Personal touches to the cv-image, short paragraph to describe the creator

2. Info-graphic CV, Ana Lourenco, 2012

Reference: https://www.behance.net/gallery/5429809/Infographic-CV

Why is this CV design excellent?

• Order of contents
• Use of graphics
• Personal touches-image
• Display of skills
• Consistent design throughout

3. Info-graphic CV, Chen Zhi Liang, 2013

Reference: https://www.behance.net/gallery/6745371/Infographics-Resume

Why is this CV design excellent?

• Order of contents
• Use of infographics
• Eye-catching design

4. Info-graphic Resume, Morgan Kourim, 2014

Reference: https://www.flickr.com/photos/97745526@N07/with/13016199345/

Why is this CV design excellent?

• Order of contents
• Use of graphics
• Use of colour
• Display of skills
• Personal logo used

5. Curriculum Vitae, Ryan Eccleston, 2012

Reference: https://www.behance.net/gallery/4383111/Curriculum-Vitae-Web-design

Why is this CV design excellent?

• Order of contents
• Use of graphics
• Consistency