Graphic Resumes
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- enkayes0
Thanks for the reponses, as harsh as some of them are.
I'm going to ditch the graphics, keep the timeline, keep the landscape, and just add text.
- good, because your venn was really clumsily designed, especially the type, and the rest of it made you look badmonospaced
- Especially your browsing habits, which we all know are a lie. You didn't include porn.monospaced
- lol mono********
- 70% of the time I watch porn all the time?tOki
- gramme0
This only adds to the harshness I'm afraid, but: start over. Ditch the diagrams. This is coming from a guy who loves diagrams. The ones you have here are cute, and I mean that in a bad way. Just typeset your information thoughtfully, and call it a day. This is not rocket science. Make it a direct, simple, straight-up text document. When looking at resumes, I want to briefly admire the typography (if it's any good), then quickly scan to see where you've worked, what you did there, and what technical capabilities you have. Then I want to move on and look at your actual work. Believe me when I say that the people you want to work for have no interest in wading through bullshit information.
If someone sent me a resume with "being awesome" as a skill set, and thought I gave a pantful where/how much they browse online, it would get immediately thrown into the douchenozzle bin.
- OP310
you first heard the Beatles in '93! Your hired!
- tOki0
Just to preface this, I'm the same age as you but I'm an art director responsible for hiring interactive designers & front end devs in a digital agency.
I'm jumping on the bandwagon with this one because you asked for honest feedback.
Wish I spent 43% of my time online browsing twitter reading other peoples useless 140 characters of poop speak? lol
This kind of information is irrelavent and will not do you any favours.
If I am looking to give you a job I do not want to know what you are wasting time on when online. I want to know how you can be useful to me. I don't need to know how cool you are because you browse flickr and ffffound. I'd be more impressed if you listed the F-WA & other industry sites as it shows you take a personal interest in your work.The truth is I don't want to know anything about you until I've seen your work. As a designer/developer you work in a production environment and that's all it comes down to. Chances are I won't even remember your name unless you impress me with your folio. If you get to an interview then we will find out if you have the brains and personality to back it up.
As for the awesome thing, that screams ego and over confidence. In a work/agency environment there is no room for these unless you are a rockstar creative whose amazing work is bringing in the big bucks.
Airey and I had this conversation at the pub a few weeks ago, I see plenty of graduates who get propped up by their teachers etc but the reality is much harsher - there are plenty of people out there who are more awesome at your job than you are. I try remember this every day and it drives me to be better. As long as you keep remember this then you'll always do well.
Start again from scratch, spend time on your typography and keep it simple!
Goodluck lol
- IRS0
LMAO... The only value that resume has is possibly the paper it's printed on. If it's thick enough, could make a pretty good airplane that flies out over the city from the 30th floor.
- hellojeehae0
venn diagram doesn't really make sense.
- ukit0
I would say "no"....execution issues aside, stick with well-set text like gramme said. There's a time and a place to show off your creativity, this isn't it.
- IRS0
I knew I saw something similar recently. http://www.jeehae.com/
Your actual PDF download resume is much better.
- yeah need an update.. :/hellojeehae
- actually updated it. lolhellojeehae
- hahahatOki
- stewdio0
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Here's the general Resume design and critique thread :
http://qbn.com/topics/630398
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- ********0
Graphic resumes fail. Novelty is a distraction, the work should speak for itself. Decision makers (IE the people looking at your resume) are busy people with little time for gimmicks.
- ********0
You could always include two versions; a functional business CV and a quirky, design based CV.
It's worth remembering that people really just want information from a CV / resume. An employer is going to have a lot of applications to assess and _compare_. One of the reasons there's a set format for this type of document, is because it makes comparing like-for-like easier.
Don't make your potential employer's job more difficult.
- PIZZA0
That Forrst site is fucking atrocious, took me a fucking age to find the thing actually being shared and then it's just a crappy 600px image.
Oh wait actually just found the link to the full size version, fucking terrible UI design.
Also would never hire anyone who spends so much time on Twitter and Digg, just stinks of mediocrity to me. Best just leaving daily browsing off, it doesn't really tell me anything about you when you just choose mainstream sites, perhaps swap it for links to your online profiles instead if you actually think that stuff is important so I can see what you do on those sites.
But really the graphic thing doesn't work, your over thinking it.
- also forrst, what sort of site REQUIRES a fucking twitter account to registerPIZZA
- spendogg0
If you want to inject some personality. Add when you first got laid on your timeline.