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9:49:06
d4ryus
MetaYan: There are some videos on shinmeras yt channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Shinmera/videos
12:59:39
selwyn
the studio that made 'untitled goose game' benefited from regional grants, and they went on to great success
13:01:16
Shinmera
and unfortunately Swiss people are not eligible for the much bigger EU game grants
13:02:12
selwyn
awkward.. i am british and considering eventually applying for a grant for the VR stuff
13:18:29
Shinmera
As part of the grant I need to write a CV. Any feedback on this first draft? https://filebox.tymoon.eu//file/TVRnNE5BPT0=
13:22:24
selwyn
some things are laid out in ascending order by date while others are in descending order
13:23:30
selwyn
it makes it difficult to tell right away what you have done most recently in each category
13:34:34
selwyn
consider adding your nationality? it's relevant to this application and the 'tymoon.eu' may confuse people into thinking you are an eu citizen
13:35:10
Shinmera
Ah, it does say "Schweiz" (switzerland) which I forgot to translate from an earlier version
13:37:42
selwyn
i should probably say that i have never actually been employed (though i have done lots of cvs for academic stuff) so feel free to take or leave this feedback
13:38:53
selwyn
er. i like every section in it - they are all relevant apart from possibly 'art', which is interesting in its own right and should stay anyway
13:41:17
selwyn
the 'publications' section is good but it looks more like what you would expect in an academic cv, which necessarily goes into detail about these things
13:42:05
selwyn
you could condense that - remove the headers and replace with a list 'Object Oriented Shader Composition Using CLOS (ELS 2018)' and so on
13:42:46
selwyn
even for academics, where it was published and the exact year of publication are not the most useful pieces of information to have
13:49:57
Shinmera
There is space at the end of the first page, but that's because I didn't want the section to be broken across pages
13:55:53
selwyn
unfortunately while i am on here i am putting off writing a paper.. which involves even more tex with lots of macros
13:58:03
selwyn
emacs is not very good w.r.t syntax highlighting and such, but it's doing as well as it can i suppose
14:24:30
d4ryus
some minor (opiniated) notes on the cv: i'd break the long line after 'Master ETH Zuerich', add more projects (depending on target audience: QTools, lquery, ...), bit more space between links and the year, the underline below 'Work Experience' is a bit thicker
14:26:41
d4ryus
Also, most audiences puts emphasis on 'team-work'. Maybe add something like your contributions to ELS?
14:30:47
d4ryus
Shinmera: yeah, but besides creating the homepage you did some orignization (hence working with people => team work), didn't you?
14:34:15
Shinmera
ok, another update: https://github.com/Shinmera/writing/blob/master/cv/english.pdf
14:34:16
Colleen
github.com/Shinmera/writing... Website (HTML), Title: writing/english.pdf at master · Shinmera/writing · GitHub