45 Creative Resumes to Seize Attention, Vol. 1

The article’s case for a creative resume: unconventional layout, personalized branding and an unusual color scheme signal individuality in a stack of applications where a standard resume can’t. It backs that case with 45 real examples pulled from designers’ own portfolios.

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• Formats range from the literal (a resume folded into a 3D box, one printed on a paper cup, tissue paper or a receipt) to the wearable (a resume T-shirt by BlackBirdTees).
• Several turn the resume into a timeline: one maps daily tasks and personal milestones from age 0 to 32, another lays out education and work history since high school.
• Other entries: a typographic resume made for a class assignment, an urban-art version done in Photoshop CS3, an 8-page booklet CV, and a CV redesigned as an A2 poster meant to be folded into an A4 envelope and mailed.
• The article opens with the one entry tied to a concrete outcome: a CV credited with landing its author the job among several hundred applicants.