Chris Kelly & Aaron Stubbe: The Reflex Blue Show #154
We bring back Chris Kelly and Aaron Stubbe to discuss red flags – when looking for a design job, as well as when realizing you need to be looking for a design job.
We also speak about what we find as the new ‘cool projects’. Enjoy.
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One thing you didn’t mention — perhaps an asterisk on the entire conversation — is that moving from one job to another isn’t always a choice. Departments vanish, companies fold, managers leave and their remaining staff is cast to the wind. It sucks. I was laid off three times in three years, and frankly I left another full-time job which felt like the thing unraveled, making it four in four years. A rough road.
The point is, don’t judge a person by his resume. The menu is not the meal; there’s likely a story in between those lines.
I fully agree, and think that most people who see enough resumes know this in the profession. I assume you may get questioned about it, but it should’t be the deal breaker,
My resume lately isn’t a year-by-year chronicle (or as I call it, a “baseball card”) but rather I split my work history into two side-by-side sections: “Currently” and “All Told”. But every now and then someone old-fashioned will freak out and come back to me with “I NEED SOMETHING WITH DATES. WHERE ARE THE DATES!!!”
I can see both sides of it, though. I person who’s never had a job more than ten weeks might have something going on. But when speaking broadly about a generation, let’s consider how “kids today” are treated. There aren’t necessarily full-time, steady jobs on offer in the first place.
“baseball card”, love that term, and probably because they are in HR trying to type your info into a neat system…
Exactly. Fits with my larger thesis that “Anytime you’re talking to HR, you’re in trouble.” Even applies if you don’t work there!