The Design Journal — Page 3
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How to Structure a Resume: A Beginner's Guide to Formatting, Bullets, and ATS
Structure decides whether a resume gets read before a single word does. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down the skeleton every resume should share, with an interactive diagram, plus how to format the PDF so ATS and AI screening tools don't mangle it.
I Read 58 Live Product Designer Job Postings So You Don't Have To
I read 58 live Product Designer job postings line by line: years of experience, salary ranges, remote policy, tools, and the requirements nobody puts in the title. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down what companies are actually asking for right now.
What's Actually Happening to Entry-Level Design Jobs Right Now
Recent college grads now have a higher unemployment rate than the workforce overall, a historic reversal. A recruiter-turned-designer breaks down what the Stanford, Harvard, and NY Fed data actually say about AI and entry-level design jobs.
AI Interviewers Are Here. This Is My Experience.
96% of hiring professionals now use AI in recruiting tasks, but only 26% of candidates trust it to judge them fairly. A recruiter turned AI product designer on why AI interviewers glitch, why companies use them anyway, and what to ask before your next interview turns out to be a bot.
Job Search Burnout: How to Keep Going When You're Drained
Month four of my job search, I hit a wall. 241 applications, 12 interviews, 156 companies never responded. Here's what job search rejection does to your brain and how to keep going when you're drained.
I Scheduled Six-Round Interview Loops for a Living. Here's Why They Keep Growing.
A former technical recruiter explains why interview loops have ballooned to five, six, seven-plus rounds, and why Google's own research found the extra rounds stopped helping after the fourth one.