business owners: a Q about how and who you hire.

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Im just after some feedback really as I`m now one of the great unwashed and need to find a new job... cheers Gordon.

so I am looking for tips on C.V.s i.e. what you do and don't like/look for on a CV,

also I want you to be totally honest about this next bit, and its not about racism, i understand its business and preference... but if you had two identical C.V.s one with John smith, the other from reberto piero corenilli. would a name put you off giving an interview if you only had a few spaces?

that's not my name but it is a name from the same region of Italy as mine. I have applied for so many jobs and gotten minimal response that I am wondering if I should Anglicize my name and use my mothers maiden name. which would be Luke O`leary.

gotta get working again, im bored stiff, sleeping stupid hours and getting more depressed by the minute. one minute your a manager of a design firm for three years, the next, poof, your on the dole.

 

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Thanks Rroff, good idea on the name front.

sadly im in the Midlands *sigh* i have no hope. lol.

 

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*bump* ??? lol.

 

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If you were a manager of a design firm try and make you're CV unique and "designer"
Is there something quirky that you could do to it, if it's a digital media/websites anychance of producing something flash. In other words don't make it look like it's produced on a 1940's typerwriter (like how my mum thinks it should be)

Btw, i'm and don't own my own company but one day would like my own design firm so would appreciate stuff like the above.

I managed the admin, finance, paperwork, taxes, vat, ect, I have no design experience myself