UCD Graduate Makes Unconventional CV

Easy Rod · 01-08-2012 01:59PM

I'm more impressed with the fact that it's been viewed so much and has it's own thread on Boards than the actual content of the 'not cv'. That's probably the thing that is more likely to get him a job in marketing.

Useless tidbit- I went to school with him and this popped up on my linkedIn about a week ago.

Sugar Free · 01-08-2012 02:04PM

I know him personally (as do several hundred others by this stage too) and while the 'soul searching in Nepal' may not have been the best description, I still think the method is a great idea.

Remember it's not part of a design student's portfolio, it's someone from a business and accountancy background using what seems to be a creative approach to changing career paths.

I'm sure he has more thorough and prepared answers regarding his career to date for those companies who do wish to interview him.

Dave! · 01-08-2012 02:16PM

Sugar Free wrote: »

I know him personally (as do several hundred others by this stage too) and while the 'soul searching in Nepal' may not have been the best description, I still think the method is a great idea.

Remember it's not part of a design student's portfolio, it's someone from a business and accountancy background using what seems to be a creative approach to changing career paths.

I'm sure he has more thorough and prepared answers regarding his career to date for those companies who do wish to interview him.

But it shows pretty much no technical ability at all... He's just doing what design students have done for time immemorial, except not as well! I suppose he can be congratulated for trying to do the same thing with no background in it, but there's nothing in this CV that makes me want to employ him (and a few things that make me think he's unprofessional, and so I wouldn't want to hire him). If he wants to work in a creative industry, he should spend time acquiring the skills to do so, and then build a proper portfolio. This is the equivalent of me (a programmer) grabbing a paintbrush and smearing some blotches around a canvas, and then looking for work as an artist...

And BTW the fact that this thing has gotten such attention is not an indication that it's in any way good! That video of a cat playing the keyboard got about a billion views on YouTube, these thing just grow legs and spread out of luck and other reasons. Wouldn't surprise me if he got a job out of it too, there's always bound to be some unskilled manager type who sees this kind of story in the paper and has their hair blown back.

Incidentally I found the stunt involving the billboard more impressive. Shows creativity, balls, thinking outside the box, etc.

LiamoSail · 01-08-2012 02:20PM

I thought it was quality, fair play to the lad

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 02:21PM

I'm thinking of getting an incontinent flash mob to assemble in Stephen's Green and sh*t my CV onto the grass. I will video the spectacle and the finished result from a hot air balloon powered my own self-importance.

Reckon I'll be off the dole in no time.

PK2008 · 01-08-2012 02:22PM

Google 'Creative CVs' ....

...this stuff has been knocking around for years

opinion guy · 01-08-2012 02:39PM

My only problem with all this is that he wants he wants to get out of accountancy/finance stuff in order to do something more 'meaningful'.....

......and he chooses....morkeshing ?!?!?!?!?:eek:

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 02:45PM

opinion guy wrote: »

My only problem with all this is that he wants he wants to get out of accountancy/finance stuff in order to do something more 'meaningful'.....

......and he chooses....morkeshing ?!?!?!?!?:eek:

People who work in PR, marketing and advertising love thinking they're doing something worthwhile.

They call themselves 'creatives' when they're making ads and they call the ads 'films'.

:rolleyes:

Shryke · 01-08-2012 02:48PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

Deleted User wrote: »

Read "Into the Wild" recently and the mind boggles, some hipster soul searching in Nepal has no relevance to McCandless' story.

McCandless was a knob, I've read about him, not his book but how he went out into the wilderness with NO clue about how to survive there. Well, "wilderness" but actually really close to a highway. And he still died. Knob. Why this person was considered a hero, I'll never know. I've seen the film, which is based on the book, and wishes to paint him in a heroic positive light. FAIL.

He wasn't a knob which you would know if you had read the book. He more than likely did know how to survive. There was a certain root that was noted as edible in the materials he had but which was actually poisonous. He died a horrible death concurrent with what you would expect from ingesting it and there was evidence that he had been eating these roots.
He was naive sure but he was just a kid. Young and idealistic and smart. He never made himself out to be a hero. If you want to find fault there then look toward the film makers.
I'll never understand the mindless repulsion some people display for the guy.

Sappa · 01-08-2012 02:49PM

The folks here who are putting this fella down haven't a clue what they are talking about and are just being negative for negatives sake.
This is x amount times better than a regular two page cv where an employer hasn't a clue about the candidate,here he is presenting himself to potential employers with a visual display that is entertaining and gives a clear idea of who he is.
Well done to him and I hope he gets a break from it,his bit on soul searching is perfectly fine inmo as the vast majority of people have fecked off for 6mths traveling or yearn to do it.

Sea Filly · 01-08-2012 02:54PM

Shryke wrote: »

He wasn't a knob which you would know if you had read the book. He more than likely did know how to survive.

He actually didn't. He caught animals but didn't know what to do with them. He starved to death near an Alaskan highway in Summer. Summer in Alaska isn't cold.

The film was supposed to be sympathetic but it didn't come across that way for me at all. Why? Because the protagonist was a self-indulgent, foolhardy, self-righteous eejit.

I'll never understand the admiration some people have for him.

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 02:55PM

Sappa wrote: »

Well done to him and I hope he gets a break from it,his bit on soul searching is perfectly fine inmo as the vast majority of people have fecked off for 6mths traveling or yearn to do it.

Nothing wrong with doing it. Including it on a CV is irritating though. At least to me it is.

And I know everything.

So there.

Harumph.

Seanchai · 01-08-2012 03:16PM

Fair play to him. At least he's trying. Far too many people don't even try and instead sit on their arses putting down people who do. That's crap.

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 03:21PM

Seanchai wrote: »

Fair play to him. At least he's trying. Far too many people don't even try and instead sit on their arses putting down people who do. That's crap.

I do try, did you not read my incontient flash mob idea?

So am I ok to sit on my arse and put people down too?

foxyboxer · 01-08-2012 03:23PM

*sidenote* If I wanted to 'find myself' then I'd just look in a mirror.

If I was the head of a Morkeshing deportment and looking for 'creative' types then I'd do well to look at the Cool Vids Photoshop competition and pm a few of the regular contributers imo.

It's a fancy powerpoint presentation.

Wompa1 · 01-08-2012 03:23PM

What I enjoy about this story is the fact he did a Masters to get his current job and has just publicly said he's lost interest in what he's qualified to do. All employers Google potential hires now, so after he does a 6 month stint in a crappy Marketing job in an attempt for a company to cash in like Paddy Power did with the other idiot (Billboard guy) , he won't be able to find another accounting job.

Shryke · 01-08-2012 03:26PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

Shryke wrote: »

He wasn't a knob which you would know if you had read the book. He more than likely did know how to survive.

He actually didn't. He caught animals but didn't know what to do with them. He starved to death near an Alaskan highway in Summer. Summer in Alaska isn't cold.

The film was supposed to be sympathetic but it didn't come across that way for me at all. Why? Because the protagonist was a self-indulgent, foolhardy, self-righteous eejit.

I'll never understand the admiration some people have for him.

I have no admiration for him if that's what you're implying. He wasn't a protagonist, he was a real person. You're not an expert for watching a film and it doesn't bode well you would call him a protagonist.
As I've already said his death was consistent with poisoning. It doesn't matter what season it is when you are poisoned. He didn't like killing animals and he didn't do any kind of job with them but he did eat and what he ate killed him. The information he had was wrong. The roots were poisonous and left him too weak and sick to seek help, however far away it was.
And there you go again with a tirade of abuse against some poor dead kid. Wtf.

Princess Peach · 01-08-2012 03:27PM

That's not creative, he stole the idea from an Episode of How I Met Your Mother, right down to some of the images he used!

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 03:31PM

Princess Peach wrote: »

That's not creative, he stole the idea from an Episode of How I Met Your Mother, right down to some of the images he used!

Really?

That's f*cking brilliant.

Unoriginal and watching sh*te TV.

If Prohibition is ever introduced I'm going to start bootlegging and call myself the Beer Baron! Hello fame!

Sea Filly · 01-08-2012 03:33PM

Shryke wrote: »

I have no admiration for him if that's what you're implying. He wasn't a protagonist, he was a real person. You're not an expert for watching a film and it doesn't bode well you would call him a protagonist.
As I've already said his death was consistent with poisoning. It doesn't matter what season it is when you are poisoned. He didn't like killing animals and he didn't do any kind of job with them but he did eat and what he ate killed him. The information he had was wrong. The roots were poisonous and left him too weak and sick to seek help, however far away it was.
And there you go again with a tirade of abuse against some poor dead kid. Wtf.

He did kill animals.

And even if he didn't, what you say only backs up how ill-prepared he was, because he didn't know what was ok to eat.

The word 'protagonist' can refer to real life figures too. Look it up. And you say I'm ill-informed?

hatrickpatrick · 01-08-2012 03:35PM

The amount of begrudgery in this thread tells me this guy will go far

I'd certainly hire this guy if I wanted any sort of multimedia presentations put together. I'd also imagine anyone involved in promotion or advertising would be falling over themselves to have him.

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 03:43PM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

The amount of begrudgery in this thread tells me this guy will go far

Criticism and begrudgery. Not the same thing.

I'd certainly hire this guy if I wanted any sort of multimedia presentations put together. I'd also imagine anyone involved in promotion or advertising would be falling over themselves to have him.

Would you really? Even when it's been pointed out that the thing is robbed from a TV show (including some of the images used!)

He's essentially just cut and paste his own text onto someone else's work.

mikemac1 · 01-08-2012 03:55PM

He can kiss goodbye to a financial services job ever again

Nobody wants an employee who doesn't give a damn

Fair enough if he wants to do something new but you don't turn around and say you were bored in the last job

Shryke · 01-08-2012 04:03PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

He did kill animals. And even if he didn't, what you say only backs up how ill-prepared he was, because he didn't know what was ok to eat.

The word 'protagonist' can refer to real life figures too. Look it up. And you say I'm ill-informed?

I said he didn't like killing animals, not that he didn't kill animals. What I say shows that he did prepare but had the wrong information. You watched a film and didn't like it so you're abusing a dead kid who died in an awful way. I read the book and I'm confident at this stage in saying you are ill informed. You're being bad minded tbh.
The protagonist is a trope of storytelling. You're on the back foot when you're resorting to dictionary definitions. But OK, why not.

A protagonist (from the Greek πρωταγωνιστής protagonistes, "one who plays the first part, chief actor"[1]) is the main character (the central or primary personal figure) of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, which ends up in conflict because of the antagonist and with whom the audience is intended to most identify.

pro·tag·o·nist
[proh-tag-uh-nist] Show IPA
noun
1. the leading character, hero, or heroine of a drama or other literary work.

2. a proponent for or advocate of a political cause, social program, etc.

3. the leader or principal person in a movement, cause, etc.

4. the first actor in ancient Greek drama, who played not only the main role, but also other roles when the main character was offstage. Compare deuteragonist, tritagonist.

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 04:06PM

Hands up who doesn't give a f*ck about Into the Wild?

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Sea Filly · 01-08-2012 04:13PM

Shryke wrote: »

I said he didn't like killing animals, not that he didn't kill animals. What I say shows that he did prepare but had the wrong information. You watched a film and didn't like it so you're abusing a dead kid who died in an awful way.

I've also read about him. It was his own fault he died. He pretty much died of stupidity.

Let's move on, shall we?

Shryke · 01-08-2012 04:14PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Hands up who doesn't give a f*ck about Into the Wild?

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For what it's worth. I don't mean to de-rail.

I don't give much of a fcuk about empty slideshows either.

AnonoBoy · 01-08-2012 04:19PM

Shryke wrote: »

I don't give much of a fcuk about empty slideshows either.

Good point.

For the record I've just realised how hard it is to draw stickmen properly on boards. Damn alignment! :mad:

Proxy · 01-08-2012 04:20PM

Shryke wrote: »

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For what it's worth. I don't mean to de-rail.

I don't give much of a fcuk about empty slideshows either.

So why are you in this thread???

opinion guy · 01-08-2012 04:23PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Good point.

For the record I've just realised how hard it is to draw stickmen properly on boards. Damn alignment! :mad:

You know what you need ? You need a 'creative' to help you drawing stick men.

Hmmm....now I wonder where you might find one of those ??
I fear we may never know:(

UCD Graduate Makes Unconventional CV

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