Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Blog #3: What's the difference between a designer’s resume and a non-designer’s resume?


One of the main differences between a designer’s resume and a non designer’s resume is the appearance. In the examples below fig.1 is a designer resume and fig.2 is a non designers resume. 
fig.1

fig.2
Both display Information about the applicants past work experience and technical skills. However on the designers resume the information is represented in a pictorial way as seeing under artistic skills. Here skills such as photography, typography and digital illustration are each represented by using pictorial graph to rate each skill area.  Also the picture of the applicant on the designer resume is cartoon based images unlike the non designers resume were this would be unacceptable.  On a regular resume information about the applicant is communicated by using only in words and is often listed as bullet points. 

A designer’s resume is most often done using a program that is closely associated with the trade such as Adobe illustrator, Photoshop or Adobe in designs. A designer’s resume as a rule of thumb is not ever done using programs such as Microsoft word as this would be counterproductive. A non designer’s resume must have the most recent work experience listed first with previous employment following in sequential order. Details of past job positions and duties is generally required. However with designers resume there is more creative freedom as to what information is listed and the order it will be presented. Also unlike a non designers resume there is a focus on the artistic creative abilities of the applicant versus their administrative capacity.

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