Your resume
Today we posted a vacant position in our Creative Services Team on Seek, and the applications came flooding in.
(I’m the monkey on the left, seeking refuge on a random villager. Michelle is the larger money, cause…well… you know.) (We’ll see how long this picture lasts).
Anyway, we actually first advertised a week ago on the Australian InFront forums (which is great, if you like reading opinionated comments), and later contacted several design schools and their alumni base.
Seek definitely has a large audience base and has really opened our eyes to the world of receiving job applications. Here are some tips:
- You are a graphic designer – MAKE YOUR RESUME LOOK GOOD…. duh!
How do you expect us to hire you, if you can’t even make your own resume look good?
- Use an appropriate format: PDF.
Contrary to what your animation professor told you, Flash is DEFINITELY NOT a good format to send your resume. I mean honestly, what are you thinking!!!? A resume is a document to be read, not a crazy experiment to test our patience in trying to open some random file.
- Excuses suck!
Saying things like “btw my folio is out of date – I have done better work since!”… only tells us one thing: You are lazy. If you have done better work, then be bothered to update your folio and show us.
- READ INSTRUCTIONS
If you read carefully enough, we asked you to visit a particular website to apply for the job, not use the seek application process. That was the first test that you either passed or failed!
OK enough ranting. Just another tip though, I think it’s always a good idea to call the number provided as well to leave a good impression – to plant a seed for your name. If you do call the number, have a good specific question to ask. Don’t just say “so tell me about the job”… If you call and be annoying, you’ll just leave a bad impression. It’s human nature after all.
