Any criticism on how I could find a good middle ground between the list resume, and what I have now?
I agree with Nurb that your CV is too long. In my opinion (don’t know what they say on coroflot) 2 pages isn’t too long for a cv, it’s just the information in yours is too hard to access. The topic of CV’s comes up time and time again on core. Lots of people struggle with trying to cram everything onto one page, then over run and have a second page with just three lines on it, don’t worry about this - space around things on a CV just makes those things clearer, dont sacrifice readability, font size, spacing etc just to get everything on one page, but don’t have just three lines on the other page either, if you can sensibly use one and a half to two pages.
The biggest test is to print your CV off and give it to someone who hasn’t seen it before, then ask them to access information and see how quickly they can do it. Employers don’t have a lot of time to read your life history, long descriptions slow people down, forcing them to fish for information, bullet points are much better or putting the most important info in bold within the text. I found it difficult to find dates on your CV.
Also, rather than getting the skills information into my employment history, I put it in at the start. I have said in previous posts, always put the most relevant things first, this is usually employment, but for me its more about the skills you have than who you worked for (unless they are really well known companies). I used to write my CV very differently, then saw how people in business/project management were writing theirs and adapted mine.
I put my name and contact on both pages, so that if printed out and the pieces get separated, they are easy to pair up or they still have my phone number etc.
You wrote in your CV:
Platform
Currently working on a mac platform with occasional cross-platform work. Experienced with windows.
or you could say:
Experienced with Mac and windows platforms.
I appreciate you want to get away from lists, but why say something with 14 words when you can say it with six or less.
Also why bundle skills and interests together? - I have to read the whole lot to find out both, rather than putting all your skills under one heading and your interests under another, is design management a skill or just an interest of yours - I’m playing devils advocate, but it’s food for thought.
Be as creative and as memorable as you like (depending on the job you’re applying for), but not before or in the way of communication. I’m not an expert although I have looked over 100’s of CV’s from the employer side of the table. There may be differences in CV writing between USA and UK, so if anyone else can respond to give a rounded answer or tell me I’m talking crap, that would be cool.