Comments on: Designing Your Résumé (CV) - Some Links

By: Anthony Johnston

Anthony Johnston — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:07:33 +0000

Love to see fab CV’s on the internet, love to see people blogging about them too.
Great stuff, Ant

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:36:50 +0000

Hi Lloyd, I’ve compiled a second batch of beautiful resumes. You can see them here:

38 More Beautiful Resume Ideas That Work

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:20:41 +0000

Thanks Jacob, that’s really appreciated.

By: Jacob Share

Jacob Share — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:47:55 +0000

Lloyd, this is a terrific article you’ve put together and I Stumbled it. Nice job!

By: Lloyd

Lloyd — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:25:00 +0000

I’m not sure where any confusion or ambiguity lay in the post, but this information relates to US résumés or UK CVs.

US CVs are more for work in academia and have a standardised format where the above rules barely (if at all) apply.

As for covering letters, the DumbLittleMan link stated exactly your point:

“If you skip [the covering letter], you simply look unprofessional. The problem is that all of the cover letters looked exactly the same and had the same message. There was nothing at all that made me want to read the resume.”