Interview: How to write a resume of a UI designer is perfect?

Although UI design is all about works, your resume is the key to getting an interview. Resume is HR's first impression of candidates, and a good resume can quickly get candidates an interview opportunity. How to write the resume of UI design? How is it different from resumes of other positions?

Although UI design should be innovative, creativity is not arbitrary and must follow certain rules.

Resume is the same, an excellent resume will contain basic contents, such as name, gender, education, work experience and so on.

First, let's look at the resume template of a recruitment website and extract the contents that need to be included in the resume.

In the recruitment website, there will be the function of editing resume online. Let's choose a recruitment website and see what your resume should contain.

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The above picture only shows the online resume content of a recruitment website. Of course, the content of other recruitment websites is similar. For a complete resume, we can draw the following conclusions:

(1) Personal Basic Information:

Name, gender, date of birth (age), year of starting work (working years), contact telephone number and email address.

(2) Education experience:

School, major, education background and education time

(3) Work experience:

Working hours, company name, company nature, industry, department, position and job description (job content)

(4) Self-evaluation:

Advantages, abilities, etc.

Second, the resume content is all these, how to make the resume designed by UI brilliant?

Resume is mainly to let HR know your experience quickly, so don't be lengthy and concise, and present yourself accurately on an A4 piece of paper.

Share two resumes, and let's see what the better resume has.

Analysis from the page display:

(1) The content is displayed in partitions, and the pages are neat and orderly.

(2) The color of resume is simple and uniform.

(3) Show the project experience in sections, which is clear and clear.

(4) Skills are clearly displayed and focused. Both resumes have presentation skills, and the first resume is simple and clear, with tool icons. The second resume shows the mastery of skills by weight, so as to better locate your expertise.

(5) Show your hobbies with small icons, so that HR can understand personal information more intuitively.

Generally speaking, a qualified resume should at least have neat layout, clear adjustment and complete content.

UI design needs a certain aesthetic, so we can also see the aesthetic of the candidate from the resume. Is the color scheme of resume uniform? Whether the format of resume conforms to the reading habits of most people, etc. , can reflect the design skills of a mature UI, but don't overdesign your resume.

The above only talks about the display of the page, so what are the precautions for the content of the UI design resume?

(1) design capability:

There are specialties in the industry, and UI designers have their own advantages. Even the UI links that are on fire in the market should have their own best direction. For example, he is good at web design, mobile design, illustration design and e-commerce design. , which can be reflected by project experience.

Although it is said that "mastering the tools can't reflect the ability of UI designers", a designer's design ideas and abilities can't be reflected from the resume page. Tools are also one of the skills that designers must require, so your resume should clearly and weightily show your proficiency in tools.

(2) Work experience:

In fact, work experience does not have to be sorted in reverse order, but can be sorted according to your work situation and position weight.

(3) Project experience:

If it is project experience, the content of project experience can be adjusted according to the nature and business direction of the interview company. For example, the post you want to post focuses on web design. You can put your experience in web design projects ahead and show your web design-related abilities.

(4) Other abilities:

For UI design, comprehensive soft power, such as thinking ability, learning ability and communication ability, is also very important, which can be simply described in the resume, and can also be reflected through work experience, project experience and interview process.