Creating a CV on Pages

CVs and resumés are synonymous and there are 17 very attractive resumés in the Pages templates.

The fact that you have +not been able to find one ANYWHERE!+ makes me hope you are not in research. 😉

Peter

anderac wrote:
Have you created a CV by any chance?

Many in my time.

The resumes I see on iworks are very corporate-like, and I need something more academic based. I am actually in med school, so the CV is somewhat of a new experience for me.

And you can't adapt what you see?

School is nearly over. Time to stand on your own two feet.

If it is the wording that concerns you, search on the many pre made Word boilerplate versions on the web. Personally I would not be impressed receiving an obviously copied CV that must be floating around the net ad nauseum.

I have in my time adapted a CV from a Staff Architect who was singularly incompetent in real life. It got me 3 job offers! It never fails to amaze me the credence people place on what people say, over observable reality.

Recent American history shows this in spades!

P.

One wonders how CVs were ever produced before the advent of computers -- starting with a blank sheet of paper in a typewriter.

Have you tried a Google search on the phrase "curriculum vitae format"? It returns almost 4,000,000 hits. It is not at all an obscure subject.

Exactly how do you anticipate our CVs would be different than yours given that all the examples we have discussed are American anyway?

I'd like to think we would not be so obsessed with conforming to a single acceptable "norm", but that probably is just wishful thinking.

P.

The resumés supplied with Pages:

1. List your name and contact details

2. Have the following heads: Profile, Experience, Education, Skills and Referrals

3. Can be expanded or altered as you wish.

4. The text is the usual Lorem Ipsum to be substituted by you.

5. Have 17 different and attractive designs which can be altered and substituted by you.

6. There are an enormous number of pre-written CVs available on the Net, if it is text or ideas you want.

All that is left is for you to do is make your selection and get on with it.

If we remain +oblivious to what you are trying to accomplish+ maybe that is due to you not stating exactly what that is, merely that this is not it.

P.

Perhaps its a transpacific thing.

Calm down, please.

In the first phase of desktop publishing with Adobe Type 1, Adobe Type 1 Expert, and Apple TrueType the way the type was marketed was through graphic arts template titles.

Of these template titles, one of the most thoughful and best designed is On Stone, The Art and Use of Typography on the Person Computer, by Sumner Stone.

On p60-61 you will find what you want. However, be aware that the book was first published in 1991, before Adobe PostScript level 2, before Adobe PDF, and before Apple PDD.

If you do a CV today, and if you distribute it digitally in a portable page description, you will want small capitals, old style figures, ligatures and more to be searchable.

The reason Apple PDD failed in the market was that it supported advanced multilingual typography without supporting search.

The reason Adobe PDF succeeded in the market was that it supported limited Latin typography with search.

Presently, you have an advanced Apple drawing model and a limited Adobe document model that does not support search for the sorts of things you can do typographically. So keep your typography very, very, very simple.

Best wishes,
Henrik Holmegaard
technical writer, mag.scient.soc.

Well there is always:

+Menu > Insert > Curriculum Vitae > Merge Sender > Print+

But I thought that was too obvious, as the O.P. had searched everywhere. 🙂

P.