Haven't even gotten a single interview yet. What am I doing wrong?
October 24, 2017 at 11:05pmHaven't even gotten a single interview yet. What am I doing wrong?
October 24, 2017 at 11:05pm (Edited 5 years ago)I 've been on the job market for a couple of weeks now, and have been applying left and right, but still haven't gotten a single interview (apart from one a recruiter set up, but told them I'm a fullstack developer, which I'm not).
You can check out my resume here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xxrmkl93afmv001/Adam-Rasheed-CV-2017.pdf?dl=0
Anything I could improve to get callbacks?
Edit: Thanks for your valuable feedback! Redid my resume to have more clear messaging: https://www.dropbox.com/s/55xlzhq0tq63bn8/Adam-Rasheed-CV-Dev-2017.pdf?dl=0
October 24, 2017 at 11:17pm
First thing I tell junior people when they send a résumé for feedback is to scrap the "skills" section
tbh, it gives an impression that you're more junior than you likely are.
Work history is the most important section
and website/email should be right under your name
at the very top
Education should come right after work history
I have been interviewing at a bunch of places the last couple of weeks, so can offer some feedback that I've been hearing and applying myself...
Your CV gives me the impression that you're a front-end developer with design experience, rather than a "design generalist who can code" because typically designers don't do data analaysis with Excel or R. Perhaps you can rephrase that section to describe your skills as "Qualitative & Quantitative research & analysis with Excel and R" as that gives me a better understanding of where you could apply that in the role of a Designer.
Your website is, good, but that also confused me a bit. The work, copy, and case studies give me the impression that you do Marketing and Web Design/Development, not necessarily Product Design.
I guess I should take a step back and ask, what positions are you applying for? My overall advice is that you should try to focus your story and narrative (via your showcase of work) to be more "complete" for the type of role you want. If you're looking for a front-end developer role, you might want to include links to Github projects and sample code. Right now I get the impression of a "one man studio" which could be why you're not getting interview requests.
My experience so far: Portfolio is the epicenter of almost every interview process I've had so far. They don't want to see a million odd projects, but a handful that demonstrate your process and work quality. They prefer a streamline narrative in the form of high quality/resolution screenshots, ideally prototypes and shipped products, along with some notes of your process, role, and design decisions and justifications.
The way the type is set in the work section, it's very dense and the hierarchy is very low-contrast. Might want to add a little more space and make sure your type elements are more distinguishable
the space in the middle is also *very* tight.
between the two columns
to Narek's point, I also didn't see any product UX work - appeared to be focused on small marketing site projects