Portfolio vs Resume
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- yurimon
I am curious what you guys think in job hunting and your experience regarding a resume being stronger then your portfolio or your portfolio better then your resume.
- vaxorcist0
Resume if you worked on B2B stuff, banking stuff, healthcare, etc where the client-aesthetics are not necessarily in your favor.... and the brand names are big...
Portfolio if you've worked on amazing looking stuff where the brand names aren't huge, and you had more control....
Depends a LOT on your target... i.e. are you trying to get hired by a very cool creative director? or are you trying to get hired by an HR department?
- monospaced0
I can tell a lot from a résumé, but at the end of the day a portfolio is necessary to truly evaluate a designer.
- nocomply0
Both are important.
In my opinion your resume/cover letter is your chance to demonstrate your communication/writing skills and come of as a generally intelligent person.
Your portfolio shows off your technical skills and raw talent for doing what you do.
If the hiring committee could have their dream candidate, I'm certain they want somebody who scores good marks in both areas.
- yurimon0
Most of the applications are through job agencies and monster. I get interest from my resume but seems to quit there. I notice also job agency, job placement seems different.
Before, I think job placement firms had more clout in picking people for placement. Now it seems more like they pitch people.Other then that I am still freelancing, trying to get into more fulltime. So i guess try to improve my portfolio..
- fyoucher10
This isn't 1995. Technology has changed, use it to your advantage.
If you really want a design job, go search for the person/persons who would eventually look at your work either via linkedin or finding their email or if they have their own website and emailing them your site / portfolio of work / resume directly. Skip the job app process / hiring agency - most of those folks couldn't tell a good design vs a bad one. That's if you're half decent, of course, and not inspiring greatness.
If you were a Creative Director looking for a good designer, and your HR dept wasn't finding you shit, and then you randomly received an email from a designer looking for a job - who just happened to be exactly what you were looking for. Would you be pissed that you received that email? Probably not. If that were me, I'd be quite impressed actually. Shows balls to go outside the norm. Initiative. Or he might tell you to fuck off. Good luck!
- newuser0
If you're applying for creative director: teaching positions, recommendations, and leadership roles are more important than work.
But everyone should have a good portfolio. It should show what you do everyday.
- newuser0
A crappy designer who got lucky to work at a good firm might be less talented than a good designer at a crappy firm, but the crappy designer might be smarter.
- Llyod0
I prefer power point presentations. screw resumes and portfolios.
- cannonball19780
Resumes are just talking points for an interview IMO.
- crillix0
Personally I would try to put my best foot forward in any aspect it comes to looking for a job. While one might be more important than the other to certain employers, a solid presentation and attention to detail always stands out from the crowd.
- monNom0
Personally, I don't even read a resume if the portfolio isn't doing it for me.
- SoulFly0
Resume with picture of yourself and personal logo at the top.
haha All kidding aside, I think that both are important, although I read and tagged this article recently, and I tend to agree very much:
Are social media making the resume obsolete?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/11/te…
- BonSeff0
don't separate the two (resume & portfolio)
integrate them on your first impression
your email should include a paragraph or two expressing the why and how,
then a link to an ONLINE HTML resume that describes previous jobs and work done with examples (with links to each).
if you are an interactive designer this is very important, give quick descriptions to projects you worked on with the company and examples a hiring manager can click on. Even if it is spec work, SHOW THAT SHIT. Just because a client wasn't wise enough to pick it doesn't mean it didn't qualify.
If you are a print designer, take photos of your work and include them in the same fashion, integrate. Even if it is a phone pic.
hiring people are combing through piles of emails. make it easy on them.providing a pdf resume as an attachment is obviously smart, but times have changed, man (smokes joint like a goddam hippy).
*goes back to watching golden girls
- animatedgif0
For designers portfolio is more important. Someone isn't going to waste time reading the resume only to look at the portfolio and find unsuitable or awful work.
But the resume becomes important if your portfolio has grabbed their interest