IS YOUR DESIGN RESUME STILL RELEVANT?

Chris Do and Jose Caballer talk about the relevancy of the design resume in 2015. Is it still needed? What should you include? How should you design it? Their answers might surprise you.

What is a resume anyway? :55
Top 3 mistakes people make. 1:37
Tips. 5:00
Make it different. Nina Mufleh case study. Her resume went viral. She applied for a marketing position at AirBNB 5:12
Chris talks about the problem with designers and their resume 9:10
Nobody cares 10:05
Farm Design portfolio on Behance 13:12
Show your work in context with beautiful photography and mock-ups. 14:42

What should you do if you are called in for an interview? Watch this:

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[sleepy-peepy]

As a design student I’m finding the more relevant experience and professional content I get in my portfolio, the less employers are asking to see my resume. It’s weird to think about but makes perfect sense after seeing this video. Instead of having my resume printed out to go over at my last couple interviews, they have my portfolio site pulled up on a computer.

[ceeece]

You guys are getting me pumped! I am a graphic design student working on my resume and portfolio right now and will be finishing up to get a job!

[elis]

Senior year of college they definitely touched on everything you guys said. Couldn't pass the class without having a website/online presence. Everything lives online. Great stuff once again

[besined]

Listen !!!! I have been so down about having to search for a job... I am happy you guys so these videos !!! So helpful!!🙏🏾🙏🏾

[rajsarkar]

Really glad I found this channel with still 2.5 years left of my design school. I'm from India and I must say your channel is a great great great help. Thanks a lot guys.

[retielnairb]

Great video guys! I totally agree with spending less time on your resume and more time developing your portfolio and mocking up your work. Presentation is key!

[SeanMates]

Love this guys. You continue to raise the bar. I was blown away with the example of the Air BnB example. I'm encouraged to know that video is growing in influence as a platform of the future for job seekers. I recently tried my first attempt at sitting down in front of the camera and while there is improvements I can make, I caught the 'bug' so to speak. Keep up the great work.

[SoulProxy]

This channel has an amazing value. It has actual content from experienced professionals. I have to catch up on all the previous episodes now :D
I really hope this picks up! This channel deserves 100 times more views!

[sfigueroa]

I just found this channel this past week. The content is so extremely valuable for anyone in business. I've watched so much of your content, and I can say that your advice applies to so many fields. Thank you for this channel. Love love love it

[AjitC]

Love the way you people present every detail of design and everything related to it...

[mariebrun.]

I totally agree with you Chris! I receive dozen of CVs per week and the first thing I do is to click on the portfolio link. That's how I make the choice to meet the person or not. I think the resume is helpful for recruiters to conduct interviews because it summarizes basic infos. But no need to spend a lot of time to do it. Make it simple and clear.

[afreenj]

Really great content here You did answer my question of "HR needs a resume and they are my gate keepers" but at the same time you raise valid points of shifting the focus to creating stuff. Mixed thoughts but enjoyed it.

[rosyigcasenza]

I'm so glad I came across your channel! I've been putting off updating my online portfolio and social media presence ... so THANK YOU for creating this video! Awesome source of motivation and direction for the next steps I need to take. You guys rock!!

[ChrisDo]

Agree? Disagree? Let us know what you think.

[doughall]

Excellent work gentlemen! As a Career Advisor I come across students with creative backgrounds. I'm used to working with students on a more conventional style resume. This video helped out tremendously!

[ProfessorBRB]

This is great advice. I teach at a community college in LA and I advise my students to start their Bechance or other online portfolio as soon as they have work that shows their original voice. A portfolio is now a living, evolving entity. I think that this is a great change from the old days when students had to invest their scarce funds in a black portfolio and lots of expensive prints and transparencies. I am posting this on our Graphic Design Club Facebook page. I hope that my students take this to heart.

[mr.badass]

THANK you for this. This makes alot of sense. Resumes are consistently thrown out nowadays. Not just cause alot of them look similar, but especially in the creative field, there's more emphasis on how the work looks rather then how much work you've done. Not saying that experience isn't important, but you want people to see your work! Especially alot of it! And it's been proven you don't need a college degree to really be knowledgeable in a topic. Not saying it's useless, but there are definetely other ways to gain great skills without a degree. Thank you!:) On it. Been working on this resume for too damn long anyways lol. Gonna focus on my portfolio and make the best art i can!

[djeliasR]

Thank you guys so much for these videos. I came across this channel a couple of days ago and cant tell you how lucky I feel to have found this. Really respect and appreciate what you guys do.

[Jonesrful]

Solid work and very relevant to a position I am in now. The content is so important, and you guys prove that the more time spent on the value of your content the more notice you will gain.

Great Video.

[sammyl]

This was the most serendipitous video that could have played automatically after that last one I was watching. I've been stressing and being overly indecisive when creating my (first) UX design-focused resume over the last few days... and I just REALLY needed to hear this. Thank you. I'm setting the timer for 30 minutes to finish my resume then pivoting to clean up my LinkedIn profile - after I watch that next video on positioning yourself... then godammnit I'm gonna stop being so scared of putting together a UX portfolio and just figure it out.