Posts Tagged ‘interview’

About 95% of the work I do tends fall into the “logos and web­sites” cat­e­gory, but every now and again I’m given the oppor­tu­nity to work on some­thing a little dif­ferent. One of my favourite “little dif­ferent some­thing” is the resume. I’ve designed a number of them, and I always enjoy them. They’re chal­lenging from an infor­ma­tion hier­archy point of view, and people really notice them. I’ve heard all kinds of com­ments, in part I think because people are so used to seeing the same boring MS Word tem­plates.

Julie Smith is a Toronto lawyer whose resume I recently designed. She sent her resume out to two dif­ferent com­pa­nies one day, and was given an inter­view on the second. Later, she passed along this com­ment from a headhunter:

Your resume looks fan­tastic! One of the best I’ve ever seen!

So, if you find your­self facing unem­ploy­ment (I’m not going to use the “R” word, or even the “D” word, but do feel free to rumi­nate on the cur­rent eco­nomic cli­mate in what­ever manner you’d prefer), you should invest in a custom-designed resume! It’s cheap, it’s fun, and it may even get you a job. And I get that warm-and-fuzzy feeling that comes from helping someone out.

Because I’m sure that those of you who know me well don’t hear enough of my thoughts on design. This is a ques­tion­naire I filled out in response to a free­lance job posting. It was quite an exhaus­tive process, actu­ally, and I only had a short time­frame in which to com­plete it, but I gave it my best shot. (I’ve edited out the “tech­nical” por­tion and the exam­ples & attach­ments, as that sounded a little too much like a high school test for even me to be inter­ested in it!) (more…)

I was recently con­tacted by a design stu­dent at Loy­alist Col­lege looking to inter­view a designer for an essay she’s writing. Ego-bloat aside, I do really like it when young(er), just-starting-out designers ask me for a “worldly” view of the industry. (Amaz­ingly, it’s hap­pened more than once!) (more…)