5 Tips For Putting Together A Great UX Design Résumé

5 Tips For Putting Together A Great UX Design Résumé

Written by WWC Team

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Working in the UX design industry is one of the most sought-after jobs available and a job market which has flourished over the past ten years. In such a specific and sought-after industry, it can be hard to set yourself apart from the crowd. Any chance you have to communicate directly with a company is a chance to get an advantage over the rest of your peers. One of those opportunities comes in the form of your résumé. Every job you apply to will ask for one and every time you submit one you want to be safe in the knowledge that you’ve given yourself the best possible opportunity to succeed at receiving employment.

So, with that being said here are five tips for making sure you’re able to put your best foot forward.

  1. Do Your Résumé  Like You Would Do Your Job

Submitting a résumé for any sort of position is a bit like submitting your first assignment. In UX Design jobs that idea is pushed to the maximum. Your work is going to be experienced by a user, and the fact that that user is your potential boss at a UX Design job makes the pressure even more intense.

So, design your résumé. It shouldn’t just be words on a piece of A4 it should truly be a positive user experience for a potential employer. Look up interesting templates, find effective ways to present yourself in this visual medium. Do anything you can to reassure them that when it comes to user experience, your dedication is universal throughout your life and work.

  1. Write It Well

Just because your industry might be focused on visuals or overall design, doesn’t mean that you get a free pass on spelling mistakes, grammar issues and poor punctuation. Writing well and with good style reassures an employer that you are reliable and professional, two key elements to just about any job. But it can be harder than it seems. So, here are some very useful tools to help you out with your résumé  writing skills:

  • Résuméntion – A general résumé writing website which does the job for you. 

  • ViaWriting and WritingPopulist – These two are very handy grammar guides. Good grammar is often overlooked, but its importance can’t be stressed enough.

  • OXEssays and Assignment Service – Two proofreading/editing sites which go beyond a normal spellcheck and are perfect for writing correctly written emails (as suggested by Top Essay Writing Services).

  • Studydemic and StateOfWriting – Both of these sites have lots of suggestions on improving your business writing generally. Learn some new writing and editing tips to stay on top of your writing style.

  • EliteAssignmentHelp and UKWritings– These are editing and proofreading tools, great for helping you ensure that your content is perfect before you send it out. (Positively recommended by Revieweal)

  • MyWritingWay and LetsGoAndLearn– Two career guides which give specific advice on how to make your email content better for its purpose.

  1. Emphasize Your Hard Skills

In creative and semi-creative technical industries, it can stop mattering so much where you studied or what your exam results were. Instead, companies are interested in knowing two things: what you can do and what you have done. “Displaying what actual skills you have within UX Design (e.g. Adobe suite, Java, C++ etc.) and somehow having proof of those skills (e.g. mentioning when you coded a whole interactive website or something of that sort) is crucial for grasping the attention of the company you want,” says Brenda M. Bockman, an HR at Writing Services.

  1. Keep It Concise

Having a beautifully formatted and enjoyable résumé is one thing, but don’t forget what the purpose of the résumé is. It’s delivering information about yourself, your skills and your goals to a potential employer. Contained résumé s are best, where the reader isn’t flipping through multiple pages, meaning you HAVE to keep it bare to the bone textually. Emphasize information over prose. Economy of space is also crucial and feeds directly into the UX of your résumé.

  1. Change It For Each Job

It’s tedious but sending the same résumé to every job you apply to is asking to get rejected. You have to make sure that each time you submit a résumé it is tailored specifically to the job you’re applying for. That could mean altering anything from the skills section to reformatting the whole piece. But it’s worth it in the long run.

Conclusion

The résumé is a particularly rich opportunity for a UX Designer applying to a job. Spell check, grammar check, be concise, format efficiently and then use the brainpower you have left for giving your potential employer a really memorable user experience.

About the Author
Chloe Bennet is a tech editor at Academized and Top assignment writing services in Western Australia websites. She writes about the latest tech news and reviews gadgets. Chloe is a career coach at Top Custom Writing Services, academic portal.