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