Creating A Professional CV

My creative CV before feedback:

The feedback that I received for this CV is as follows:

You have taken an in interesting and bold approach towards developing your creative CV. However, it is important to understand the assignment brief and ensure that it is meeting the criteria specified. Your CV does this but there are limitations to your approach which lie chiefly in that presentation
and content aren't particularly targeted towards the vacancy chosen/ Development points: Use of images is particularly effective within the creative sector, after all the CV can be a tool for you to demonstrate your technical and creative skills. Consider incorporations a range of images within your CV and expanding you CV to 2 pages will enable you to do this Alternatively, using a smaller font size and different layout would enable you to restrict your CV to 1 page; Font--‐size – this is too big for a CV. Additionally, your CV is quite text heavy and this means that it isn't particularly easy for the reader to focus on the information relevant to them/the vacancy; Details regarding your degree appear to have been omitted from your CV – a significant omission given that the vacancy specifies a related degree; Look at the vacancy and address the criteria specified, e.g. there is no evidence to show that you have the required skills/experience with relevant software, i.e. Photoshop.

Summary of the feedback:
-Target my CV more specifically to particular jobs.
-Incorporate more than one image.
-Expand CV to two pages or smaller font size and different layout.
-Show evidence of required skills, e.g. Photoshop
-Too text heavy.

My opinion on the feedback:
I appreciate the feedback I'm given for each project I do yet I can't help but to disagree with some of the feedback I received for my creative CV. I do need to focus more on targeting specific jobs rather than having such a broad CV aiming range, so this is something I will try to develop although I don't see how I'd be able to make it too specific as I'll be using this same CV to apply for many different photography/creativ jobs. I don't like the idea of including more than one image unless it was to be a different photo used as a background for a second page which then brings me onto my next problem of not wanting a two page CV, I think a one page CV is more compact and easier to work with, I feel as though potential employers wouldn't want to be flicking through pages. I will make my text smaller and cut un needed parts out of it to make it less text heavy and I will include evidence of skills.

My general CV before feedback:

The feedback for this CV is as follows:

Your general CV reiterates the approach taken within photography foced CV and in this sense doesn't work well for a CV aimed at a more 'mainstream' sector. A completely different approach is required here. Development points: See above; Formatting and standard of presentation need to improve radically; Once again, focus on the requirements as stated in the job ad.

Summary of the feedback:
-Aim for more mainstream jobs.
-Focus on job specific requirements and show evidence.
-Improve formatting and standard of presentation.

My opinion on the feedback:
I agree that I need to focus on specific job requirements and aim my CV towards more mainstream jobs but I do not think my formatting or presentation needs changing. I think that although my presentation for this general CV is slightly creative and different looking then this doesn't mean it won't be attractive towards the less creative jobs. Mainstream jobs will have gone through millions of the same looking CV so I think my design will stand out more and give me a head start.