Web Design London – A simple guide to the curriculum of web designers looking for work
In the past 6 or 7 years I have participated in several selection processes profiles Web Design London, and look what happened time and still see today in the resumes we receive from web designers to nothing things that are recommended if you try to convince someone of your worth as a professional in the field of web design.
Of course, I’m hardly an authority on the subject, not work in a human resources department and am the person who has done more interviews with web designers, but after working more than 10 years in web design, to see many resumes web design and do interviews with designers muuuuchas to contract, if I think I can contribute something as simple as say in your resume that you must focus, as we notice those who want to hire web designers … because the truth is that sometimes you get each thing …
Are you a web designer?, Are you looking for work? Then pay attention to these points, which are critical to assess you as such and you want to hire.
Are you a web designer? It is essential to include your work address
Although many works have no web, really, the most important thing is to include URLs in your resume
First, no, the very first. If you really are a web designer, show your work first, that your work speak for you. Read lots of resumes of web designers that do not appear in either a single URL, or a sad web address is very frustrating. If you really have worked as a web designer or even as a graph, TEACH YOUR WORK, however small. It is very difficult to call you attention to a web designer has nothing to teach because that usually means: A. I have no websites that teach or B. I have websites but I did not want to teach. And not worse.
Secondly, do not teach all your work, teach what you really worth. Let’s see, we have all done horrible websites and we work that we do not feel proud or have aged badly, for example. I, put my finger in the eye, I have things like this online site that has a whopping 8 years. Will would like a job on my resume today? No, I am ashamed of it? No, the truth, to have 8 añazos the truth is that it has not aged at all bad, despite the intro flash, frames, and all practices that today are repudiated by all (FLASH! MARCOS! IFRAMES! Vade retro Satanas!). At the time, and even today was a good job, but today is worthless in my curriculum.
Thirdly, get even value to your work. That is, do not just put the URL and ball point. Explain that you have done in the design of this website and have posted, if you’ve met with the client, what resources you used and why. It is a way to get a value to things that might otherwise not have it. Not the same place a URL of a WordPress WordPress explain that you used for this and this because the client wanted this and you played these and other parties, for example. Or explain how you solved a problem with a previous design and upgraded the other. Things like putting a value to a job and say more about you. These are details that are very valuable because they say more about you as a professional to put a string of data that then explain or defend not know in person.
Fourthly, no ornamentation in excess. Every time you drop a curriculum infojobs in fact my hands shaking on reaching the skills or abilities of where I come to see designers with 3 and 4 pages of knowledge and skills, that if an expert in CSS3, HTML5, in XML, cleaning spark plugs PC, Photoshop, in quantum physics, at all … anyone really read that?, really that’s relevant?. Think is really important in web design and points out your skills in 10 or 12 things at best. Have 80 skills, plus some believable, it is very long to read, and even really have, when looking for a web designer in principle seeks a professional with a good command of a number of specific skills. The amount does not make you better. The clarity, the concrete, having the record straight, creativity, if they are very valuable.
The fifth and last but not least, stand in line and in vivo. Got a blog, a portfolio, a LinkedIn profile, a Twitter? Then put them! If you are a web designer will have one or more of these things, they will say more about you than a simpleton curriculum to use. And when the interview is important to see that as a designer have their own ideas, have initiative, have creativity, you like what you do, you are interested in learning … mechanically responding to questions that make you like a robot is not very attractive and the euphoria passed either, but to be honest and talk about your work, what you like about what is not, in your influences, etc … is something that helps to value the person more than other things.
And he said, may seem little or bad advice, but today we must be aware that no one wants to waste time on anything, so like it or not, the resume is your gateway to many people, and this must be worked and thoughtful, like a web, which we all know that you have a few seconds (yes, seconds) to capture the attention and interest of the user. I hope that at least some of these “tips” help you to understand the real importance of things in the process of selecting a web designer … no easy task I assure you.
