What font is your CV in?

[ChrisFilter]

For Office 2007 users there's a free 'save as pdf' add-in by MS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...11-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en

 

[Biddlybee]

Actually it is a typeface, not a font.

I thought it'd be easier not to go there

 

[g force]

It's been Arial, Tahoma and TNR but is currently Helvetica.

 

[Popsicle]

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

The thing is, you are looking for work in fashion retail, not media.

The recruiter will be more concerned with the content of your cv, where you have worked previously and what key skills and experience you have.

These will vary depending on the sort of role you are after.

I would really avoid anything that makes the recruiter wonder where they have seen it before, and anything that looks like it belongs to a brand.

 

[5t3IIa]

The thing is, you are looking for work in fashion retail, not media.

The recruiter will be more concerned with the content of your cv, where you have worked previously and what key skills and experience you have.

These will vary depending on the sort of role you are after.

I would really avoid anything that makes the recruiter wonder where they have seen it before, and anything that looks like it belongs to a brand.

Thank you for;
1. Being helpful
2. Not mentioning Helvetica

OK: serifs for paper, sans serif for screen, right?

So - I am going to print this out - I need a serif font like TNR or Rockwell?

 

[kabbes]

No, in terms of readability on paper, serifs damage legibility for small font sizes and make no difference for larger ones. And on screen, it is better to be without.

 

[Dillinger4]

Helvetica.

 

[5t3IIa]

No, in terms of readability on paper, serifs damage legibility for small font sizes and make no difference for larger ones. And on screen, it is better to be without.

Holy crapsticks - what now then?! :wailing:

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Book Antiqua - everything I do is in that as I like it and can't be arsed to find a new favourite

 

[kabbes]

Dude, it's not that hard. Use Arial or Helvetica, depending on what you have available on your computer. If you really hate that then use Times New Roman instead -- nobody will judge you for it.

They care about the content, not the typeface. So long as you don't actually draw attention to your crappy choice, they won't even notice.

 

[kabbes]

Book Antiqua - everything I do is in that as I like it and can't be arsed to find a new favourite

That's something that will actively draw attention, because it is out of the ordinary.

A CV isn't really the place for a design statement. You don't know who'll be reading it and what random typeface-prejudice they'll display. Just play it safe and go with one of the Big Three.

 

[5t3IIa]

Thanks kabbes. You have an air of trustworthiness about you. I don't like what you're saying but I believe you, like, more than BiddleyBee.

I shall now rewind 2 days worth of finessing and print the fucker out as is/was.

 

[teuchter]

Thanks kabbes. You have an air of trustworthiness about you. I don't like what you're saying but I believe you, like, more than BiddleyBee.

I shall now rewind 2 days worth of finessing and print the fucker out as is/was.

Do you believe me less than kabbes as well?

And do you believe me more or less than BiddleyBee?

 

[5t3IIa]

Do you believe me less than kabbes as well?

And do you believe me more or less than BiddleyBee?

No, I believe you equally as much as kabbes. I apologise for ignoring post #42 cuz it's ace.

I have failed this thread but everyone else (excepting Dillinger) has been really good.

 

[kabbes]

I am always the most inherently trustworthy in any given situation. It is something I have repeatedly exploited to con the unsuspecting out of their hard-earned millions.

 

[Biddlybee]

Thanks kabbes. You have an air of trustworthiness about you. I don't like what you're saying but I believe you, like, more than BiddleyBee.

He just rewrote what teuchter and I said

Do you believe me less than kabbes as well?

And do you believe me more or less than BiddleyBee?

No, I believe you equally as much as kabbes.

I'll just stfu then

 

[Santino]

Trebuchet?

 

[Biddlybee]

Not for long

 

[Edie]

Out of interest, what's the difference between a typeface and a font?

 

[kabbes]

Out of interest, what's the difference between a typeface and a font?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Best thing to do is actually to Google it. Seriously, before all the hurt comes.

 

[Edie]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Best thing to do is actually to Google it. Seriously, before all the hurt comes.

Really? Is this seemingly innocuous question truely filled with under-the-surface angst and rabid opinion?

Off to google...

 

[kyser_soze]

Arial 10-12 point, depending on which 'version' of my CV I'm using.

 

[Edie]

Quick google later: a typeface seems to be the design of the letters, the font the size the letters are in a particular typeface. However, cos puters can adjust typeface size so easily nowadays the terms are used interchangeably.

Where's the contention?

 

[winterinmoscow]

Arial 11 - aparently, according to some bod at work, arial has been recognised as the clearest font for partially sighted people to read

and I like it better than times new roman

 

[MadDruminFerret]

This thread makes me feel like im in American Psycho.

Read it while imagining all the posters as smooth-spoken american guys in suits; lounging around in a meeting room...

 

[toblerone3]

Just changed it to Ariel Narrow 11pt makes it look slighly more modern than bloody Times New Roman. But to be honest fucks knows about fonts. Fuckem !!

 

[cybertect]

This is very important, actually.

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

Better yet, I've had my HR manager ask how she could open what turned out to be Microsoft Works and Quark XPress files.