Stunning CV

Rockporkchop

In the horrible bright yellow CV they have spelt the (slightly sinister looking) guy's name as Stephenson at the top and Stevenson at the bottom. And there are too many errors like apostrophes for plurals and spelling mistakes so I definitely wouldn't trust their attention to detail. You could easily do a CV like that yourself, as others have said.

paddyrg

You may be 'noticed', but not for the right reasons. People might think you're an attention-seeking twit who values form over function/substance. I know most technical employers I've worked with or for would laugh at that CV before binning it, no matter what your skillset.

Employers look at CV's when they have a business need for someone who can do a job, therefore key skills and experience are far more important than 'knows how to waste toner'. And a photo on your CV is a terrible idea - it shouts 'I love myself more than I will love you - See me! See me! I am needy!'

And if you're applying for one of the few professions where form is valued over substance (advertising, etc.,) you would be advised to use your own creativity (which is presumably what they're going to employ you for).

My 2p, anyway

bevanuk

A fancy CV means nothing. It's a waste of time and money if you're paying these people.
Any CV should be clear and concise with no nonsense - unless you're in an arty field (i.e. graphic design).

Others have suggested tailoring CV to each dog, as a frequent employer I would slightly differ from that.
Tailor your cover letter to an individual role, tailor your CV to an industry.
You probably get about 40 seconds of an employers time in total - making it 'stand out' with silly graphics just cuts into that time.

InsideInsurance

With all three of my clients in the last 2.5 years they have used a workflow tool for dealing with recruitment that the CV is pasted into and gets displayed as a very basic webpage with almost no formatting. In fact it was very bad at handling advanced formatting in documents and not only did you not get the formatting but it could result in very messy outputs - one CV I saw had every line printing out on a new page for some reason - never seen 100 page CV before!

If you are going for a design job then fair enough but at the same time you shouldnt be using an off the shelf solution if thats the case.

If you are going for any other type of job then a little individuality is ok but remember its probably going to be printed in greyscale and without background colours/ images.