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St. John & Partners is searching for full time
1. Copywriters with retail experience to work on our furniture brand. Junior or senior...just have to great to work with... strong super collaborative team, so no buttheads or big egos should apply. 😂
2. Sr. UX Designer
3. Freelance AD andWriters with tv experience
4. Freelance Broadcast Producers!!
Send resumes and your super skill info to celiaweeks@sjp.com
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The former, you can bring your branding in with a logo and type choice, maybe small hints of color. Don’t over-do it.
It needs to be ATS friendly and well designed. If I’m reviewing resumes, all I generally check for is that it’s we’ll type-set. If you have poor type, I won’t look at your portfolio. Otherwise the resume is really only there to get through the recruiter systems.
Gotcha. That's very helpful!! Thank you so much!!
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99% of the people who post resumes here have overdesigned it. Too many colors and shapes and weird bulleted lists and skill charts. The type is set to large and leading too tight. No white space or margins. Err on the side of less and you should be good.
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I have done one where is pretty much clean but it’s consistent with my design portfolio. I can show if you want :)
Yes please! I'd very much appreciate that (:
As a hiring manager I want to see good design decisions on a resume, like good white space, clean margins, hierarchy, clean fonts and color choices. Overly designed resumes are hard to skim, and I have to get through a lot of resumes in a day.
A design resume should be:
1. Clean and easy to read
2. Have great hierarchy, margins, spacing
3. Have a simple beautiful aesthetic
Ultimately, the visual design elements should serve to highlight the content and show your thoughtfulness and ability to curate your style.
Your portfolio is much more important to me, to help me see your skills and aesthetic. How you’ve curated your portfolio, what you learned from a particular project, what your role was, versus others on the team are ultimately the most likely thing to get me excited to talk with you.
I imagine different hiring managers might feel different ways. I love an about page with a photo. Getting to know the designer a little bit before we talk is nice and helps me connect more quickly in the interview process.
The answer is to do both
Great question and one I hear about a lot! My SO was just part of roundtable discussion (podcast) with some top LinkedIn recruiters and resume writers. I agree with GTLI1 - keep it clean, succinct, and easy to read (skimmable). The portfolio is key and probably more important. Good luck!