I am a first year project manager with primarily freelance graphic design experience.
I recently recreated my resume to focus more on my experience, rather than my first resume, which focused on college. I know some of the formatting if off (the pdf sharing tool messes it up).
I am looking to eventually find a role that uses my graphic design/project management background together some how. I also have web/design examples that I’ll include with a final resume.
Under your “Project Administrator” summary, you list “Fischer Price…and other companies”, which isn’t helpful since Fischer Price and those other companies are listed just after.
Other than that, bangin’ layout. Really attractive and easy to read.
I don’t hire in your field, but I see a lot of resumes. I think it’s good. Concise, with the relevant info, without a lot of extra fluff. The one thing I would question is including the price for the social networking site you sold. Is that considered a lot of money for that type of thing? I’m not being snarky, I just don’t know. It doesn’t seem like a lot of money, but I may be wrong. If it is, then fine, otherwise I’d just say you sold it and leave the figure out.
No advice. Tearing people’s resumes apart is a bit of a hobby of mine, and I must say I’m sorely disappointed. This is a rock-solid resume. I wish I could get mine as tight as this.
Thanks for the advice everyone! I wasn’t sure about listing the sale price of that one site I owned-I figured selling a site in college for 15,000 is a cool thing…so I was specific, but i could be wrong.
Definitely list the sale price. The only thing I would change is reverse the order of your education listings, so that the 2008 one appears before the earlier one.
The advice I would offer is to ask yourself if someone can find you by “googling” the content of that resume. Headhunters find you through similar means. Therefore, if there are keywords particular to the line of business you want to be a part of, they need to be in your resume.
Look at postings on Monster (and others) for jobs that you really want & see what keywords are in those job descriptions & stated qualifications. Make sure all the relevant ones that apply to you are in your resume.
Keywords are still important - even if you apply directly for jobs the employer may use keywords to rank multiple applicants. And if you are applying for specific jobs, tailor your resume to highlight how your skill match the specific job requirements.
This is a *great *résumé, and I love that you kept it to one page. I’ve been in the IT field about 25 years, manager since 1988, and I wish more résumés looked like this. I wish *any *of them looked like this.
So the comments I have are nitpicky.
In Summary, reword “Position includes” to “Experience includes.” It sounds like you’re about to tell us about a single position but I think you are trying to summarize your overall experience.
Capitalize “Flash” if you’re talking about the Adobe product.
Change “Average project budgets range from $25,000 to $500,000 dollars” to “Project budgets range from $25,000 to $500,000”. If you give a range, it’s not an average. Also, the dollar sign is already there.
For consistency I would say “$1.5-2 million” or maybe “up to $2 million.”
No particular reason to give your GPA. If you had a 4.0 then I would say go ahead, but otherwise don’t bother, especially since the degree is not related to the job you’re looking for. Also, no reason to mention dates on your degrees. Many employees will ask for these two things on an application but the résumé is just supposed to get you in for the interview.
