Resu-ME?

Week 7:

I first heard about something called a resume from my mother. She had recently ended one job and printed out resumes to bring on job interviews as she searched for another. I can still feel the texture of the thick ivory colored paper she printed hers on and feeling like it would be a million years before I would have to create a resume of my own.

It's hard to believe that I am at the point where I need to create a resume. Yet, here I am. For IDD 480 we are required to create a resume...Not just any resume, but the resume of a graphic designer. After reading Building Design Portfolios I have gained some valuable information on creating a design resume. It excites me to know that a graphic designer's resume can have design aspects. I liked that the book showed two resumes by the same person. One was very plain and the other very much reflective of the individuals skills as a designer. I'm just so happy that my resume doesn't have to be words alone and that it can have aspects of design as well!

The reading also had a lot of great insight into the interview process and job hunt. It also gave me some great ideas for promotional material to leave behind with employers. I am thinking of creating a "leave-behind" that will be a flip book of some of my work. On one side of the flip book with be my work and when it's turned over it will have a little stick figure doing something...I haven't decided what yet.

Overall, I am pretty excited to have the opportunity to "wrap up", in some sense, my work from the past four years and present it to the real world. I'm eager to get out there and flex my creative muscle!