happy new year everyone I know it's February I'm really sorry I haven't been
able to upload if you watch the video till the end you'll kind of know why but
for now this video is about CVS because you guys have requested it and what
better way to start 2020 than a video about CVS and creative development
previously mentioned that I've attended a workshop with an architectural hiring
manager at one of the best firms in the UK and she had personally looked at my
CV and gave me some critical tips that I think are super useful so in today's
video we will be looking at my old and current CV
what I changed and why and all of the tips that helped make my CV successful
in getting my first architectural internship so let's begin from the top
first thing you should have is your name and your contact info and this should be
very clear the blue banner that I had was kind of a design feature to go along
with my outfit in the picture but she said to be careful with color because
you never know how it prints in the office of your employer and I have had
previously printers being so annoying and printing the wrong colors so one way
to avoid this is to make sure that all of the colors are CMYK in your Photoshop
Illustrator or Word document whichever program you are using now the other way
is to completely avoid color which I find bizarre but she was a professional
hiring manager with over 15 years of experience so I can't really argue with
that next is the profile picture she said to
avoid adding pictures unless you are 100% sure it's clear and professional
image she had explained that a person had applied with a profile picture
holding a glass of wine which sends off a wrong and professional image then
later she had discovered that person was actually holding an award but the image
was not so clear so you can expect that a caused confusion so they decided to
let this person go because of the inconvenience
next is the profile where you give an introduction about yourself and your
best qualities this is quite easy to write because you are my friends and
amazing I do have a mistake here which is the hyphen between words because I
like to justify my text so to fix that you will need to add or remove a few
words next is employment history which is
basically any job that you have had that you were paid for
I did not include in the CV unfortunately any relevant experience
which I was not paid for which could be useful for the employer such as
volunteer work any exhibitions internship and etc don't feel
discouraged if most of your work experience is in retail and mostly
academic work as the employer already expects that if you are an undergraduate
I was also missing a key sentence at the end which is what I learned from every
experience because the employer care more about the skills that you've gained
from those jobs so for example working as a part of a team working under
pressure time management talking and connecting with customers you might
think that these skills it isn't relevant to architecture but trust me it
is all of these skills can easily be transferred and apply to architecture so
next is education for those who don't know I have studied two years in Saudi
Arabia before transferring to the UK however this CV makes it seem as if I
had completed both of my studies or I had a double major I have also not
included what modules I had next is achievement which is self-explanatory
you might think that you don't have any but trust me you do you just need to dig
deep you can also add any competitions you've entered any awards nominations
recommendations maybe a mention in your University website or blog one of my
friends even wrote that she went on a site visit I don't know if that's an
achievement but it could definitely be under relevant experience so the column
on the Left she didn't like very much because it felt squashed and not very
clear she didn't have any other comments on it except for my social profiles and
she said that I shouldn't that I have a YouTube channel and unless I get 100
percent positive comments all of the time which is kind of impossible and
kind of unrealistic and I don't agree with it but she was confused on whether
to keep it or not as she had not seen any other student with an architectural
YouTube channel before so I'll take that as a compliment so I just decided to
keep it Facebook Twitter Instagram are all unnecessary if you do add them you
should check your profile and make sure it's professional because employers will
take this opportunity to check your social so if you have images of you
partying or with your friends doing practical jokes images of your cat
your meals they are not so professional so maybe those should be to friends only
what you should add is LinkedIn and guys I didn't really know LinkedIn was that
important so you really need to spend at least a
few hours if not a full day to add as much relevant useful information as
possible on LinkedIn you need to know that if you do decide to add an image to
your CV it should be exactly the same as the one in LinkedIn so that you're easy
to find in my hobbies I wrote surfing the web shopping and taking care of my
cat under the suggestion of my brother who thought it would be funny and kind
of show my playful character she did not think it was funny so in my new CV I
removed all of my hobbies I don't have any hobbies anymore unless you play the
violin or write poems or read Shakespeare poems from bobbies I don't
know if you should add them to be honest last thing is the length of the CV
considering I am an undergraduate one double-sided page is the maximum for the
overall design she said since everybody's trying to stand out
sometimes it's nice to just read a nice and well drafted CV simple and easy
layout no fancy graphics just almost everyone who had kind of let's say an
out-there CV was kind of criticized one girl she had a CV she designed a
banner on top of the page so that in a pile of paper her name will show the
manager said if your CV is bigger than an a4 it will go straight to the bin
without even reading it because they can't file it so I felt so sorry for her
but I guess with CVS you truly just need to keep it simple so now let's look at
the new and improved CV its simpler clean layout first thing I changed is my
font from Bebas neu to Times New Roman and Arial one thing I forgot to mention
is you should think of your portfolio and CV as a package so in my portfolio I
had Bebas neu as my font and in my CV but now I've changed my CV to Times New
Roman so I should change my portfolio as well to Times New Roman I've added my
contact info location and my LinkedIn at the top so that it's easy to find one
mistake I did in my preview CV which was added my full address with
post code and everything which was kind of a silly mistake and I was thinking to
myself why would they know that I live in this flat this street name this
postcode so anyway they just need to know the city you're in on the right
I've added my LinkedIn QR code which I can't take full credit for a girl at the
work job she had it and the managers just went crazy
and she thought it was such a genius idea so I've added that to my CV so
if you want to add it to your CV all you need to do is install the LinkedIn app
on your phone and if you click this here you can see your own code or scan other
codes you can then share the code to yourself by an email and then add it to
your CV change my profile a bit to be a bit more personal instead of kind of a
computer response that I had in my previous CV my degree which is
architecture I made it in bold to make it easy for the employer to know what
degree I'm studying I've also added what I learned from each employment and my
relevant work experience
more skills and achievement with a bit more info to each and also the software's
I use in education I've also added the modules that have studied and explained
how I transferred and how my previous two years were considered as foundation
so reference is available on request do not add any names or phone numbers in
your CV you can write the name of your partner your cat your previous employer
your sister your mother your brother because your employer will keep your CV
they'll keep these files if they want to keep someone else's name or phone number
they need to have their permission so that means they have to contact that
person and ask for permission to keep their contact info so overall I would
say I prefer this layout a lot more than how it used to be to be honest the last
one it kind of had more effort and this one was just done in Word maybe in a few
hours it feels that it's more spread out there's more empty space there's a lot
more info and detail which I think it's more important than fancy graphics in my
opinion the CV was a lot easier to write in Word and then to make it in Photoshop
so I think it just gets a thumbs-up for me so let me know in the comments if
this video was helpful which layout was your favorite do you think that the
first CV with icons and graphic was better or this one which is a bit more
simpler and cleaner also do you have any more tips regarding CVS please let me
know in the comments and help your fellow friends out there if you guys
stuck around to the end you know what happened I'll kind of briefly explain
what happened but I'll explain in more detail in my next video so be sure to
watch that so basically sister visit me from Saudi
Arabia I haven't seen her for about four years she was pregnant
and she also had a three year old girl so I couldn't really spend so much time
editing or working and also spent time on my uni projects because spending time
with my sister was a lot more valuable because I don't know when I'll be able
to see her again and Reem if you're watching this video girl I love you so
much and I miss you but you ruined my semester I'm just joking so yeah I
couldn't really upload much and anytime I had I was trying to
work on this project which was so so so complex it gave me so much stress and I
literally felt like I couldn't breathe I was running from uni work running to
doing other things running to family running into this and really sorry but I
just did not have the time or any energy but I hope I'll be back into it I have
three videos planned for this week so we're coming back strong I hope you guys
are not too mad at me thank you so much for sticking around I love you guys so
much I am Rasha Shrourou and I'll see you next
time