Week 16 : Skills resume

Well the weeks keep trucking along, we just passed the six month mark for this experiment. There have been some promising developments but we'll keep them under wraps until something more substantial shows up. In the meantime I wanted to share this video with you

Skills Resume

I never could understand how a resume could be effective at only one page long, it turns out what I though was a resume was really a Curriculum Vitae (CV). To be fair my father always refereed to them as CVs and he probably was the person who taught me how to compile one.

On the other hand, a Skills resume, is designed to target all the buzz words in a job description. Let's say the Job Description is :

• Lead teams of designers, writers and directors to drive the overall creative vision for our games.
• Foster collaborative and successful working partnerships with our clients and departments across the studio.

 So instead of hoping that the HR person would notice the Lead Designer from the list of projects I have on my CV. I would target those bullet points directly.

• Facilitated game design features and requirement for both creative and development team.
• Organized quality assurance for assets shared between collaborating contractors on Disney's Epcot Attractions.

As you see these points are more direct. Point is I am going to start tuning my resume writing process and I suggest you watch the video and do the same.


See you in Twenty Five weeks