C.V and Evaluation

 

 

As part of my Foundation Degree I have to complete work experience within the fashion industry. For this, and as part of my online Issuu portfolio, I have to produce a C.V with all the relevant information for my future employer. I found this a difficult task as I have no previous experience working within the fashion industry so when it came to writing relevant information I found myself hitting a brick wall so I decided to write about the recent things I have been doing in our assignments such as working for the British Racing Company and the tasks I had to carry out such as brand research, having meetings with the buyers, and designing different parts of men’s clothing. I also added my interests which included fashion trend hunting, print development, creating my own garments and designing and draping. I thought it was a good idea to add this to my C.V as employers can see my main interests. I have also added my personal and technical skills. I thought I should add this to make employers aware that I can work in the physical part of the industry as well as designing and using Photoshop and Illustrator.

The job role I am most interested in is the communication part of the fashion industry which means I will be applying for placements in jobs such as fashion magazines and styling. As my experience lasts for 4 weeks, I am hoping to gain two different job roles so I will hopefully complete 2 weeks in each placement to gain as much experience as possible.

When creating my C.V I looked at other student C.V’s which are on the Westminster University website from those who are studying fashion design. This helped me a lot as it gave me guidance of how to lay out my C.V and the format of different designs. After I added all the information I thought was necessary, I then edited the font, colours and layout slightly to fit my own, personal style.

 

I have decided to use the bottom image for my C.V where I have changed the font to Ariel. This is because the writing is bold and is the most clear out of them all, straight to the point and sharp; also I think it fits well with the rest of my Issuu.

I decided not to use the C.V with the shadowed background because, although personally this is one of my favourite, I find reading it not as easy and didn’t want to increase the size of the font as I didn’t want it to lose its sophistication.

Another idea for my C.V was to have it all on one page with my personal information to the left hand side. I also liked this idea, however thought it was too small and wouldn’t have had the same effect if it was spread on two pages.