Since the dawn of employment, strategies in human resource management required measures to separate weak from strong candidates. Employed to separate the numerous applications were resumes. Resumes were formal application that would capture the essence of the applicant in as little words as possible. Traditional resumes dictated standards and formal specifics to cut through the clutter. However traditionally resumes could only convey an applicants skill on his ability to communicate with words. Traditional resumes did not communicative visual designs too well. Visual communication in resumes would lead to resumes being more bulky with the addition of artwork and pieces. The bulky resume had the added weight of being rejected as it was a little too much to read/look through especially for a human resource officer that had hundreds of resumes to look through. Design applicants eventually got smarter and actually started to incorporate their design into the actual resume, reducing the bulk and still conveying design competence.
In today's society traditional resumes are still heavily used but mainly by non-designers, but where designers are concerned they became so creative in their resume designs that an employer can actually use the designers resumes as a part of a marketing campaign. This could potentially present another risk to make the designer irrelevant but no one can actually say the resumes are not creative.
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