Good news. I’ve arranged an online meeting with Kristin this coming Thursday! Until there, I thought about diving a little bit into the history and evolution of resumes.
Resumes are also known as “CV” short for “Curriculum Vitae” – which means “Course of Life” in Latin. Used as a form of summary for people’s education and professional career.
Apparently, they come from a long way. Some say the first recorded person to use one was Leonardo da Vinci (who else!) when searching support for his work back in 1482.
(On a side note, I’m just imagining da Vinci’s resume now “ polymath, painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect” – enough to make any of us look bad 😅).
By the way, these guys created a “modern” resume of some iconic people including Da Vinci: It’s quite fun: https://fff.analyticsweek.com/2020/10/05/this-is-how-6-historical-figures-would-have-written-their-resumes-today/?doing_wp_cron=1623046204.0188980102539062500000
Regardless of when it really started, the purpose of a resume was always very clear: to summarise our qualifications, experience and achievements – a purpose that still remains nowadays. Although, I can see two massive changes:
1) the format in which is presented – from a boring sheet of paper to videos and interactive animations, there aren’t really any limitations on how we can use our creativity to present our resumes (and even though my CV is still on a boring sheet of paper! Damn! Now I’ll have to rethink how to improve that!)
2) the type of information added into it – Academic achievements, qualifications, professional experience, general skills.. all of that is still there. Although, on my research I’ve found a number of resumes with personal information such as.. hobbies and other interests, things not directly related to the position they are applying but (in my view) also very important when analysing people’s profile and personality.
So, yeah. I guess that like any other design project, we can have fun and be creative but always remembering to deliver the main purpose of it.
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