The summary
Three sentences: your years and where you work (brand, digital, print), the one project that moved a business number, and the tools you design in. A designer's résumé still needs results — the portfolio shows the craft, the résumé shows the impact.
- Lead with a result a client cares about — conversion, followers, time saved — not "creative and passionate".
- Name a measurable win in the summary; design that moved a number separates you from the pile.
- Say Figma and the Adobe tools plainly; recruiters and systems both filter on them.
- Always link a portfolio (Behance, personal site) — for design it is the single most important link.
Works
Graphic designer with 6 years across brand, digital and print. Led a D2C rebrand that lifted add-to-cart 22% and grew Instagram from 20k to 90k followers.
Does not
Creative and passionate graphic designer with an eye for detail, looking for an opportunity to create beautiful designs.
Experience bullets
Each bullet is a verb, what you designed, and what it changed — conversion, reach, turnaround, errors cut. Design impact is measurable; show the number and let the portfolio carry the craft.
Works
Led a D2C rebrand across packaging, site and social, lifting add-to-cart 22%
Works
Grew the brand's Instagram from 20,000 to 90,000 followers in 18 months
Works
Built a Figma design system of 60 components that cut turnaround from 3 days to 1
Does not
Created various designs for social media and print as per client requirements.
Skills worth listing
Group so it scans: the design you do, the tools you use, how you deliver. Keep tools current — Figma and the Adobe suite are table stakes.
- Design
- Brand identityTypographyLayoutPackagingSocial media designDesign systems
- Tools
- FigmaAdobe IllustratorPhotoshopInDesignAfter Effects
- Delivery
- Print productionPre-pressCreative direction
Format
- Keep the résumé itself one clean page; the portfolio is where the visuals live, not the CV.
- Single column with standard headings so applicant tracking systems read it — a heavily designed résumé often parses as nothing.
- Put the portfolio link at the top, next to your name; it is the first thing a design lead clicks.
- Show impact in words on the résumé and craft in the portfolio — the two do different jobs.