AD5804 - CV and cover letter development

On Thursday I went to talk with the Future Plan team who helped me to review my CV and cover letter drafts. It has been incredibly useful speaking to them because I had the chance to listen the point of view of someone who does not know me at all and made their impressions relying on what is written on my CV.

I realiased that there were extremely important details that I did not included assuming that they were taken for granted, while they actually were not.

Here my documents revisited by the Future Plan team:

One of the main issue was that I was not focusing on photography. For example I wrote that I did volunteering teaching in a school in Nepal and I took pictures for a local NGO. Written in this way it seems like that my teaching experience is more relevant than my photography, while it is actually much more effective to mention photography first if I want that the person reading my CV associates me with the figure of the photographer.

I was also compromising a lot of space with the personal stripe and the timeline. The main pursue of my timeline was outlining my international background and my studies, so we decided to include this information in my introduction paragraph and experiences. The personal stripe with one of my pictures as background has been reduced, furthermore they made me noticed that it was too dark to be visible once printed on paper, looking just like a black stripe.

This is my new draft:

I think there are still some details that may be improved and I would like to listen to the opinion from someone working in the field, but I can already see a massive difference from the older version. Though nothing has been added, the same things have been only written in a different way that makes me selling massively better as a photographer.