Objective: Create a one-page, 8.5-inch wide by 11-inch high, single sided résumé of your educational background, professional experience, hobbies, and qualifications.
See full details below, including typography instructions.
Learning Outcomes
- defining who you are, in a one-sheet written résumé
- typographically aligning this résumé with your portfolio is recommended, but keep in mind, your PDF portfolio may have fonts that do not necessarily work with a one-page resume
Required Reading
- Ten Common Résumé Mistakes
- Insights on Résumé Writing
- Typography, Mixing Fonts (you can do it!)
- Typography, Pairing Fonts (you can have 2, or more!)
- You don't need to use the exact fonts shown above, but note the way differing styles come together
A. Planning & Design Process
- access and read the Dropbox Paper file found in our LTP folder, with instructions for using Dropbox internally
- look through your work experience:
- see class calendar share a Dropbox Paper with the instructor, text-only, listing what written content will go on your résumé
- instructor will share feedback by see class calendar
- use feedback from the instructor, and begin to design your one-page résumé, this is Part II-B, see below
B. Design Your Résumé
- 8.5-inch wide by 11-inch high format
- first review of PDF résumé due, shared on Dropbox see class calendar, to LTP folder
- use Apple's Pages, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator
- spell check, spell check, spell check
- use your text-only content from Dropbox Paper, taking all feedback into account, revising as needed
- for your résumé design, typographically, create order, organization, and hierarchy
- use a font that has various styles, giving you more variety
- normal, narrow, normal bold, narrow bold, thin, thin narrow
- use a grid
- consider how your résumé design can relate to your PDF portfolio design
- color, while a possibility for your résumé, is not necessarily a requirement
Worth 100 Points
- 40 points initial work, Part II-A via Dropbox Paper (max. 10 points each): curating your experience and work; organizing it into Dropbox Paper; sharing with instructor and peers (instructions forthcoming); appropriateness of content
- 40 points, Part II-B, craft of your design and typographic composition as PDF (max. 10 points each): hierarchy of information (headline, subhead, running text, smaller text), use of grid, precision (spelling and alignment), readability and legibility
- 20 points, overall quality and professionalism Part II A+B (max. 10 points each): preparedness and professional, meeting deadlines and format guidelines
