What font is your CV in?

[FridgeMagnet]

Microsoft wouldn't buy Helvetica from the makers (Mac word has it iirc)

A lot of the UI in OS X is in Helvetica.

 

[Dillinger4]

This film about Helvetica is interesting. It argues that it's become the most neutral font we have.

http://www.helveticafilm.com/

I have been meaning to watch that for a while.

 

[bi0boy]

The best sans serif font is MS Sans Serif, so naturally I have used that at 11pt.

Arial is like a subtle Comic Sans in disguise.

 

[Badgers]

I did a business writing course a little while ago and the trainer recommended Garamond for business proposals and such things. I suppose a CV is a business proposal and mine (about two years out of date) is currently in Arial I think.

 

[gentlegreen]

Arial is like a subtle Comic Sans in disguise.

I have a habit of sending emails in largeish Arial - I sometimes wonder if people think I'm being patronising ...

 

[kabbes]

Font? No no no. You should always handwrite your CV. And never photocopy it -- always write it out by hand nice and fresh when you need a new one.

 

[DotCommunist]

crayon. Green crayon

 

[chilango]

This for the headers

...and this for the body text.

 

[rubbershoes]

mine was in garamond when i last did one...about ten years ago

 

[5t3IIa]

Lucida sans unicode looks like Billy Blue Hat and Roger Red Hat when printed out

 

[Biddlybee]

I've realised after all my advice to go with arial that mine's not in that

 

[5t3IIa]

I've realised after all my advice to go with arial that mine's not in that

What do you do Biddly? I want a fly-by-night fashionable font, the type Heat writers email each other in, that sorta shit

 

[Biddlybee]

You really don't though 5t3IIa, I think it'll make the wrong impression - you want people to read your CV, not look at it and cast it aside because of the font you've chosen.

It's in Trebuchet at the moment, a humanist font that's easy to read on paper - but I'll probably change it to arial once I start looking for work.

 

[Dillinger4]

Lucida sans unicode looks like Billy Blue Hat and Roger Red Hat when printed out

Helvetica FTW.

 

[Biddlybee]

Not every computer has helvetica though

 

[electrogirl]

Helvetica FTW.

God why don't you just marry it? Or something.

 

[Dillinger4]

I will email it to anybody who wants it.

 

[Dillinger4]

God why don't you just marry it? Or something.

I already have. It is a happy and fulfilling marriage.

 

[electrogirl]

Dillinger is going name his 1st born, Helvetica.

 

[Dillinger4]

Dillinger is going name his 1st born, Helvetica.

You are just jealous because you are not married to a font.

 

[ChrisFilter]

a) your CV should always be in pdf format if you want to keep it looking good on any machine

b) I used calibri in 10pt last time around.

 

[teuchter]

You are just jealous because you are not married to a font.

Actually it is a typeface, not a font.

 

[Dillinger4]

my life is a lie.

 

[teuchter]

a) your CV should always be in pdf format if you want to keep it looking good on any machine
.

This is very important, actually.

Never ever send someone a CV which is a Word document.

 

[Dillinger4]

Q: I have no idea how to create a PDF. How do I do it?

 

[Biddlybee]

I presumed everyone converted them before sending them - none of your formatting gets buggered then.

 

[teuchter]

Q: I have no idea how to create a PDF. How do I do it?

save as / export as / sometimes you do it via the print dialogue - depends what you're using to create the document in the first place.

 

[Biddlybee]

Q: I have no idea how to create a PDF. How do I do it?

Print to PDF if you have a PDF converter or acrobat (not just the reader), or else upload it somewhere online and convert it.

Google PDF conversion, there are loads of sites that do it

 

[Dillinger4]

save as / export as / sometimes you do it via the print dialogue - depends what you're using to create the document in the first place.

Print to PDF if you have a PDF converter or acrobat (not just the reader), or else upload it somewhere online and convert it.

Google PDF conversion, there are loads of sites that do it

Cheers.

I am just about to send off two applications/CV's today, and I need everything to be perfect, because I really want this one.

 

[kabbes]

There's a programme called Cute PDF that I use at home. It's a free pdf writer and works just fine.

You should protect the pdf too, incidentally. All of this is very important, as I discovered when moving jobs last time round and one of the recruitment agents actually changed my CV to make it look as if I had experience in an area important to the employer. The interviewer inevitably asked me a question on it, which I was totally unprepared for because I'd never written the offending piece in the first place! I was so bemused that I double-checked my CV when I got home and saw that the version they had and the version I'd sent out were different.

So make sure that nobody can fuck around with it and protect the pdf. Even if you are using a recruitment agent and they try to insist that you give them something they can copy and paste, refuse them outright.