Your personal ability and social experience will be exposed in the "unintentional act", but you still think that these painstaking design works will impress the portfolio review. After reading countless job emails and portfolios, my biggest feeling is that candidates have different abilities. When I look forward to seeing a standardized job collection, I always get unexpected surprises again and again.
Therefore, before sending a job email, you should be clear about the doorways of many portfolios. ...
In the eyes of many job seekers, 2-3 final products = portfolio, which will be sent to each other first, and I will show more works during the interview.
But in the reviewer's opinion, if you open the email and see that the job seeker has only put two or three pictures, there will be no following. The reason is simple, either the attitude is not correct or there is no job at hand. As long as you look at the portfolio submitted by other job seekers below, you can understand why submitting scattered drawings will only be rejected.
Remember: every company has only one job opportunity, and job seekers need to seize the only opportunity to fully demonstrate their personal level.
In the eyes of many job seekers, ppt= portfolio, ppt can be put into the design project in an orderly way, and can complete the basic typesetting, so that it can enter the ideal state of playing presentations.
But in the eyes of reviewers, ppt is already a routine used around 20 10. Displaying design works with ppt today will only give the applicant an impression that the applicant is unprofessional and can't keep up with the times.
Remember: job hunting is not a project report, so there is no need to add "visual effects", just show the design works in the most efficient way.
In the eyes of many job seekers, document compression package = portfolio, the more works, the more attention can be paid to the position applied for.
But in the eyes of the judges, the documents in the compressed package are dazzling, just like a department store. Shall I open them one by one for half an hour, or let me guess which one is your favorite?
Remember: the job portfolio is a weapon to compete with other competitors, not to compare with yourself. It is enough to submit a PDF package containing 4-6 items. When applying for a job with your heart, you should at least respect each other's time and tell each other what is the key.
biographical notes
catalogue
Project 1: Chapter Page
Project 1: Content Page
Item 2: Chapter Page
Item 2: Content Page
And so on, and finally the back cover of the collection.
When reading the standardized job-hunting portfolio, recruiters can first understand the applicant's rigorous job-hunting attitude, and step by step understand the applicant's application background, project type and personal design ability from the cover.
1. Design thinking
Designers are not artists. Through portfolio projects, candidates need to show their problem-solving skills to portfolio reviewers. Therefore, in the collection of works, it is necessary to show the design objectives of each project, what research has been done to find out the design problems and user pain points, what methods have been used to analyze the problems and find solutions, how to gradually optimize the scheme around the design objectives, and finally deduce the final scheme.
What the reviewers expect to see through your project is what tasks you can accomplish (such as product design, furniture design, vehicle design, etc.). ) and whether you can complete them independently according to mature design methodology.
2. Painting expression ability
The ability to "express" this picture, rather than the ability to "make" another picture, means that the applicant speaks with pictures as a designer. First of all, portfolio reviewers, like you, are all from a design background, relying mainly on visual images to input information to the brain; Secondly, in practical work, designers communicate almost entirely with drawings, sketches, storyboards and mood boards, and the efficiency of reading paper is too low for designers!
3. Aesthetic ability
Although aesthetic ability is not the most important auditing standard for junior positions, if a job seeker applies for an international design company or a senior position above a senior designer, he must have excellent personal aesthetic quality, especially when the first party you want to serve is a large multinational company such as Apple, Samsung, Johnson & Johnson and Mercedes-Benz.
4. Project experience
Portfolio reviewers want to see job seekers have the ability to cope with multiple challenges and be independent. For example, architects have diversified practical experience in projects, such as hospitals, transportation hubs, airports, super-high-rise buildings and commercial complexes, rather than Yishui residential buildings.
5. Communication between works and people
Applying for a job is different from applying for a job in a portfolio college. The final design scheme should be closely communicated with users, how interactive design can enhance user experience, how architectural design can enhance visitors' space experience, and what kind of cultural labels and identity clothing design can provide for buyers. The actual data feedback, industry reputation and award-winning projects after the design landing can all be part of the job search portfolio.
Nowadays, the portfolio has become a necessary stepping stone for designers to apply for jobs. The finishing process of the portfolio may be very long, and the mood of deleting the project must be in a dilemma, but everyone's efforts have only one purpose: to show their core competitiveness in the shortest time, impress the examiner and win the offer!
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