Kicking off a job hunt for the first time in 8 years. Are designers expected to have a fancy layout using Canvas (or similar) or is Word still the standard in job hunting?
Your resume is going to go through an ATS so it needs to be clear and easily readable, first and foremost. White background, black text. You can always have two copies with different looks.
Can..va..?? Dear goodness no. Are you visual designer or product designer?
I’m somewhat horrified by your question… Why would you use Word or Google docs for a designer resume? When was that ever the standard? The standard of the past was PDF and designed using Adobe Indesign, more recently maybe Figma or sketch.
Would definitely say indesign still unless new designers coming in never learned indesign. People design resumes on figma??? (Hmm i guess its possible, still weird for me to think about)
PDF is the exported format…Figma and Sketch are definitely not the standard for document writing. Your resume is a document. It doesn’t matter what tool you use to create your resume as long as it communicates the information well and isn’t over-designed.
My resume is designed in Figma, its not that strange when you think about it because it can export to PDF and you can choose paper as artboard size
How does this work when you apply for jobs that use an ATS? You just fill out all the fields by hand again?
Honestly I never really applied to anything recently that used an ATS, Facebook, Google, ServiceNow, Amazon, Netflix….it was just uploading my resume and that was it.
Any designer worth hiring should be able to get strong information hierarchy and a bit of polish going in Word or Google docs.