<\/p>\n 2. The Underground Map<\/strong><\/p>\n A job hunting journey with a difference – inspired by the famous London tube map design,\u00a0 Jonathan Kaczynski arrived at the inspired idea of drawing a CV\u00a0 along the same lines, Nest stop: Job Interview Junction<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3. The Chocolate Bar<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4. The CV-shirt<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 5. The Poster<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 6. The Google Search Page<\/strong><\/p>\n One clever tech type decided to make a bid for employment at the cultural colossus that is google – and what better way to show off your design and technical expertise than creating a personalised search page to help the hiring manager find the perfect candidate?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 7. The Film Case<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 8. The Comic Strip<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 9. The Board Game\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 10. The Handkerchief<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you have any brilliant examples of outstanding CVs? Share them with us on our Twitter and Facebook page.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week, the Adzuna team has been pondering the all-important question of what makes a CV really stand out from the crowd. A while ago, we heard a radio interview with a famous advertising guru. He spoke about his struggles, successes and how it all started for him. At the beginning of his career, after Continued \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,74,118,79,3,51,75],"tags":[140,250,90,82,248,85,8,28],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cv","category-employment","category-internships","category-job-interview","category-jobs","category-personal-brand","category-tips","tag-creative-cv","tag-cv","tag-employment-2","tag-job-interview-2","tag-networking","tag-new-jobs","tag-social-job-search","tag-tourism-sa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"6e77e706f996266a6ebdd480022276f1\"](\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/6e77e706f996266a6ebdd480022276f1.jpg\")
<\/a>Designer Miguel Rato, measured out just the right quantity of creativity\u00a0 to showcase his skills, featuring ingredients like his ‘high calorie’ skills in Photoshop and ‘medium calorie’ abilities in HTML and CSS.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>What a sweet way into a job! After some cold responses to his normal CV from companies, this candid candidate wrapped a sweet treat in his credentials. Yum.<\/p>\n<\/a>Less of a t-shirt, more of a ME-shirt: this clever lady wore her application on her sleeve.<\/p>\n<\/a>Monica Gomes turned her CV into a poster-child of applications, styling her application as a retro ad.\u00a0 The result? She won a\u00a0 job offer with one of her target organisations.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Landing a role at Pixar isn’t easy, but this animation aficionado certainly gets five stars from us for this performance.\u00a0 He sent an old-school film case to the hiring team, which housed a notebook featuring gorgeous illustrations and notes detailing his skills and previous\u00a0 projects. We don’t know if it worked but we wish we had though of this ourselves!<\/p>\n<\/a>A fun and innovative take on the run-of-the-mill job application, this candidate took the opportunity to showcase their artistic abilities, unique approach to projects and sense of humour simultaneously.<\/p>\n<\/a>Boasting creativity and nostalgia in equal quantities, this extraordinary application invited the recruiter to play to find out more, and included an instruction booklet resume. Game on!<\/p>\n<\/a>When the employer spills tea over this one, at least they’ll be able to wash it.<\/p>\n