Resume Question
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- fyoucher10
IMO 2 pages is cool as long as it has relevance to what you do and isn't loaded with words. Keep it simple. Don't have a one-pager and fill it up entirely with words. 2 pages is cool if there's a decent amount of white space and it's easy on the eyes.
I wouldn't add any fluffer to any of it. So, if you were a designer, don't add copy that simply says 'I designed shit' unless it has more meaning or is more obvious than what the position does. Describe achievements but don't go overboard. Awards are cool but I don't think anyone really cares.
There's a lot of folks that say more than one page is bad. I don't think that's necessarily true. Point is, just make it easy to read and easy to extract info from. If you're in the design industry, your work is what's eventually going to get you hired. The resume is really for HR so they can quickly determine the best candidates to pass onto the creative manager who will likely just quickly scan your resume to get a bit of info about you and then look at your work.
If you're a web designer, it's definitely best to have your own site on your own domain (it can be c a r g o or whatever) with your own email address using your own domain. If your not a web designer, b ehance, krop, etc is cool to use for a site and gmail is prolly fine for an email.
Have a designed resume. Create a scannable one just in case (but those are prolly the kinds of companies you dont want to work for. And most importantly, have a LinkedIn profile and connect with the folks where you want to get hire. Get real testaments of your work and how working with you is like.