If you could please take a look at a working resume and let me know what you think.
Thank you !
Bench
Feb 28, 18 4:49 pm
Over-designed. Its really confusing. Why so many font variations? You can't really see the hierarchy, its just frustrating to look at. Simplify your choices for fonts, remove a lot of the information, shorten the descriptions.
The actual layout is decent.
Non Sequitur
Feb 28, 18 4:53 pm
Kill the bold words with fire. Limit the width of the paragraphs, try using 2 columns instead.
citizen
Feb 28, 18 5:41 pm
What nationality is that name?
kjdt
Feb 28, 18 5:42 pm
The bolded words make me skip over everything but them. It reads as if you used 60% more words than necessary and you know it so you’re bolding the ones that you think really matter.
So many typos – “on going” (one word), “would coordinated”, “lead weekly site meetings” (“lead is present-tense. The rest of your verbs are past-tense. You mean “led”)… many more. You need somebody with a good grasp of English to take a red pen to the whole thing.
If you must list a summer studio, list it last, after your BS and AA.
You have a history of jobs that only last a few months – but then you list so many tasks for each that it just looks like you’re very flighty and unfocused. Focus on getting descriptions of each position down to 1 or 2 lines. Cut everything that is readily apparent. For example when you say “recorded meeting notes for reference”, everybody knows the notes are for reference. Keep things like “the projects and studio emphasized ideas of materiality, scale and spatial programmatic relationships” out of your resume completely (they’re not accomplishments), and let your portfolio work show that.
Nobody will believe you’re skilled with a software if you can’t get its name right on your resume – example: it’s Kerkythea, not Kerykthea.
You can scrap the whole “Craft” category. Everybody who has studied architecture has model-making, drawing, and sketching skills. If yours are special it will be apparent from your portfolio.
Hi everyone,
If you could please take a look at a working resume and let me know what you think.
Thank you !
Over-designed. Its really confusing. Why so many font variations? You can't really see the hierarchy, its just frustrating to look at. Simplify your choices for fonts, remove a lot of the information, shorten the descriptions.
The actual layout is decent.
Kill the bold words with fire. Limit the width of the paragraphs, try using 2 columns instead.
What nationality is that name?
The bolded words make me skip over everything but them. It reads as if you used 60% more words than necessary and you know it so you’re bolding the ones that you think really matter.
So many typos – “on going” (one word), “would coordinated”, “lead weekly site meetings” (“lead is present-tense. The rest of your verbs are past-tense. You mean “led”)… many more. You need somebody with a good grasp of English to take a red pen to the whole thing.
If you must list a summer studio, list it last, after your BS and AA.
You have a history of jobs that only last a few months – but then you list so many tasks for each that it just looks like you’re very flighty and unfocused. Focus on getting descriptions of each position down to 1 or 2 lines. Cut everything that is readily apparent. For example when you say “recorded meeting notes for reference”, everybody knows the notes are for reference. Keep things like “the projects and studio emphasized ideas of materiality, scale and spatial programmatic relationships” out of your resume completely (they’re not accomplishments), and let your portfolio work show that.
Nobody will believe you’re skilled with a software if you can’t get its name right on your resume – example: it’s Kerkythea, not Kerykthea.
You can scrap the whole “Craft” category. Everybody who has studied architecture has model-making, drawing, and sketching skills. If yours are special it will be apparent from your portfolio.
100% agree