In Desperate Need of a CV Update!

I had a lecture today which involved looking at past student's CVs. Oh my, I really need to get mine up to scratch! OK, so most of mine is up to date but my personal profile definetly needs rethinking. Also looking at the creativity of most people's CVs made mine look really boring, I'm thinking of adding some of my illustrations to the CV, and possibly playing around with the layout and size/shape of the page. I also learned an important thing about cover letters - they need to give the reader a feel good factor about you from the first word to the end, mine in the past have been so plain and boring, no wonder I've not been very lucky in the past! Time to do some thinking...