Strike "Vancouver Film School" from that first credit. And as many other credits as you can. Education should be way way way down at the bottom of a resume if it's there at all. Any project you did while in school you can claim as a production, employers don't care if it was for "school" or not. You still did it. Claiming "SCHOOL!" or "COLLEGE!" (does uni =/= college in Canada like GB?) is something that amateurs and recent graduates cling to. Differentiate yourself. Present as professional.

Your descriptors don't need to be complete sentences. "I was responsible for the" are five words that add nothing to the description of your work.

Stuff that isn't directly related to the job you're applying for, like working at Toys R Us and a library when looking for vfx work, are pointless.

ESPECIALLY if you're applying for a position that requires some sort of visual eye, take some time to design something nice out of your resume. Pay attention to the layout, the typefaces, all of it. Your email address says "chriswalkerisanartist" but I sure as fuck wouldn't be able to tell from the way this word document is laid out.

Keep it simple, make sure it looks good and it's easy to read. Noone likes a big wall of text. There are tons of templates on the web. Download as many as you can and see what does and doesn't work.

Also, this:

Last edited by Lamer (2012-06-27 11:08:12)

Ya biggest thing I can suggest is prioritize work/projects above education, people want to see what you've done, they don't particularly care where you went to school. This is always the toughest one starting out when you don't have any real work experience, so I always tell people starting out, do a project, any project. Try to find an unpaid internship, talk to local businesses, look at craigslist. If you can't do that, then do a project yourself, anything to get real work experience up at the top of your resume.

And like Paulou said, strip out any non-relevant bullshit. No "works well with others", no "played 10 years in an orchestra", the only non-work-relevant thing you might include is if you know a foreign language (and I mean "know", not "studied it for a year in high school"), you should include that as some companies might have out-of-country teams working on part/all of a project and might be interested in someone who can coordinate with those teams.

In the US, a university is the word for a collection of colleges. A university might house a college of fine arts, a college of pharmacy, a college of engineering, etc. All on the same campus.

I'm sure they'd think it's cool that you directed it, but you probably aren't going in for a job as a director. You're looking to showcase vfx skills, so it should be almost exclusively about that.

The design is much better, I'd do a couple little artistic things differently like make that pair of lines at the top a little longer and have the bottom one break the margin and creep into the darker part a little. Move the software stuff all the way to the bottom of that column, it's distracting from your previous work, which should be the showcase here.

The descriptions are pretty good, but rewrite them pretending that each word you use would cost you a dollar.

I would change Elgo to just "Elgo - Digital Artist". Reference to religious anything is a liability.

Are you speaking from experience?