Things to Do if You Want to Work for Squeejee

We recently posted an ad on Craigslist and The Texas Startup Blog for a Designer/CSS Guru position we are trying to fill. After getting at least 50 e-mails inquiring about the job here are few points you should follow when trying to get any design job.

1. Always, always, always send examples of your work! You would be surprised at how many emails with resumes that had no examples of past design work.

2. The bulk of the resumes we received were Word docs. I don’t have a huge problem with Word docs but why not send out a .pdf? Help me help you.

3. We placed the Craigslist ad in multiple cities and got the same exact e-mail from some job hunters for all three cities. What this tells me is that you have no attention to detail. If you paid the slightest bit of attention you would know that you had already applied for this job. This makes me think that you really aren’t interested in our gig, but just shotgunning out your resume in the hopes that you get ANY job.

4. I don’t mind if you have used templates in the past, but please show me some original designs!

The good news is that we have found a hand full of really talented Designers that we will be interviewing.