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Optimize Your UX/UI Resume for 2024: 10 Elements to remove

First of all — Happy New Year 2024 🎉 🥳.

With over 23 years in graphic design, software development, and UX/UI, I’ve had the fortune of reviewing and identifying common elements in resumes that are often not a good idea to include and tend to be ineffective. I would like to share a list of some elements that we should (myself included) avoid having in our resumes for this newly started 2024:

1. 🤳 Photographs and Selfies: Ok, I know you have and want to use that impressive professional photo (Yes, the one you build with that AI app on your phone), but including it in your resume can lead to risky unconscious biases from the employer or person in charge of the initial decision-process. In this field of graphic design, marketing and product development, your skills and achievements should speak for themselves. Moreover, in many countries, photographs in resumes are considered inappropriate and Rookie (This last one is my personal opinion BTW).
2. 🤝 Professional References and Reviews: I understand you might think it’s common to show who endorses or likes your work or even who love to work with you, but including references in your resume takes up valuable space; leave this strategy better for LinkedIn (Trust me, this platform is very often used for us to find talent). Most employers usually request…