This document is a slideshow resume created by Jesse Desjardins to showcase his work experience and background in a more visual and engaging format than a traditional text resume. It includes highlights of his education and work history from 2000-2011, showing his experience in marketing, consulting, public speaking, and travel/social media projects. The slideshow emphasizes standing out from other applicants and telling one's story in a unique way online through platforms like SlideShare to get noticed for new opportunities.
Hi, I'm Abi Jones. I'm also an interaction designer. I figured that checking out a visual resume would be a lot more fun than reading my Linkedin profile, so here you go!
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Pre-order Vitaly's book "Accelerated Startup – The New Business School" http://golomb.net/book
Apple owes the title of the world’s most valuable company to its genius in design. Good design is never accidental and at the core of a successful product is an elegant solution to a painful problem. Design has earned a very important seat at the table with today’s companies especially in the world of software and apps. In this highly engaging presentation, Vitaly covers principles and business value of good design, design disciplines, how to hire and work with designers, and the design success formula.
Hi, I'm Abi Jones. I'm also an interaction designer. I figured that checking out a visual resume would be a lot more fun than reading my Linkedin profile, so here you go!
Fed up with the way our modern day world uses outdated techniques in the job world? I give you My ANTI-Resume Manifesto. It's like no resume you've ever seen before!
Design for Startups - Build Better Products, Not More FeaturesVitaly Golomb
Pre-order Vitaly's book "Accelerated Startup – The New Business School" http://golomb.net/book
Apple owes the title of the world’s most valuable company to its genius in design. Good design is never accidental and at the core of a successful product is an elegant solution to a painful problem. Design has earned a very important seat at the table with today’s companies especially in the world of software and apps. In this highly engaging presentation, Vitaly covers principles and business value of good design, design disciplines, how to hire and work with designers, and the design success formula.
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The planning, creative and broader marketing community uses insights or an insight to get to ideas that will solve their marketing or business problems. This is a brief exploration into the definition of the insight.
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For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".
I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.
This talk was presented at CSS Day 2016.
Talent Imitates, Genius Steals: Four Chapters on Being Creative in the Digita...edward boches
Thoughts on being creative and finding inspiration. Four chapters: creativity matters more than ever; there's no such thing as an original idea; learn to steal and remix; dissect the formulas in ideas that work. I should note that while the statement in this title has been attributed to Picasso, Oscar Wilde and others, I stole it from Faris Yakob, who has used it for years. Thank you, Faris.
10 Classic Growth Hacks: Hints at the Future of MarketingRyan Holiday
Adapted from "Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising" by Ryan Holiday.
http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Hacker-Marketing-Primer-Advertising/dp/1591847389/ryanholnet-20
"Everything you thought you knew about marketing is obsolete.
We can see the incontrovertible evidence right in front of us. A new generation of multibillion dollar brands—Facebook, Twitter, AirBnb, Evernote, and countless others—have been built without spending a dime on traditional marketing techniques. No press releases, no PR firm, no Madison Avenue, no billboards in Times Square.
It wasn’t luck that took them from tiny start-ups to massive success. They have a new strategy. It’s called Growth Hacking. And it works.
A Growth Hacker is someone who rejects what “marketing” is supposed to be and replaces it only with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. Growth Hackers rely on inexpensive tactics like e-mail, pay-per-click ads, blogs, and platform APIs. They chase real results in a field that was dominated by gut instincts for nearly a century. They reject the traditional marketing worship of all things big: big budgets, big campaigns, big opening weekends. Instead, they embrace the opposite: taking a start-up from nothing to something, launching a Kickstarter project, building something that truly spreads.
Growth Hacker Marketing offers both a new mindset and a new set of rules. Bestselling author Ryan Holiday, the former director of marketing for American Apparel, will convince you of the urgency of this awakening. He shows why the game has changed forever and what to do about it—whether you are an aspiring marketer, an entrepreneur, or a Fortune 500 senior executive."
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Born in London in the 1960s, planning has struggled to keep pace with the significant changes in consumer behaviors. Here we’ll explore how planning can evolve to make advertising more effective, both now, and into the future.
How to measure Digital looks at the important role of Key Performance Indicators and how you create them. It takes a Communication Objective and turns it into Strategy that leads to Tactics to support the Strategy. The final piece is putting in place Key Performance Indicators which makes up the parts of the Communications Objective.
WTF - Why the Future Is Up to Us - pptx versionTim O'Reilly
This is the talk I gave January 12, 2017 at the G20/OECD Conference on the Digital Future in Berlin. I talk about fitness landscapes as applied to technology and business, the role of unchecked financialization in the state of our politics and economy, and why technology really wants to create jobs, not destroy them. (There is a separate PDF version, but some readers said the notes were too fuzzy to read.)
The planning, creative and broader marketing community uses insights or an insight to get to ideas that will solve their marketing or business problems. This is a brief exploration into the definition of the insight.
The Great State of Design with CSS Grid Layout and FriendsStacy Kvernmo
For far too long we've been forced to reuse layout patterns that have worked in the past, creating a web full of sites that all look the same. Narrow timelines, browser support restrictions and lack of a true grid system have led us to create work that is "good enough".
I've spent years exploring how we can make the web a more unique space. With some of the newer CSS techniques available, we can start to make more creative designs. CSS Grid Layout is on the horizon and will play a major role in the design of our sites. Finally having a true, 2 dimensional grid will give our layouts much more flexibility and it is on us to explore the possibilities.
This talk was presented at CSS Day 2016.
Talent Imitates, Genius Steals: Four Chapters on Being Creative in the Digita...edward boches
Thoughts on being creative and finding inspiration. Four chapters: creativity matters more than ever; there's no such thing as an original idea; learn to steal and remix; dissect the formulas in ideas that work. I should note that while the statement in this title has been attributed to Picasso, Oscar Wilde and others, I stole it from Faris Yakob, who has used it for years. Thank you, Faris.
10 Classic Growth Hacks: Hints at the Future of MarketingRyan Holiday
Adapted from "Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising" by Ryan Holiday.
http://www.amazon.com/Growth-Hacker-Marketing-Primer-Advertising/dp/1591847389/ryanholnet-20
"Everything you thought you knew about marketing is obsolete.
We can see the incontrovertible evidence right in front of us. A new generation of multibillion dollar brands—Facebook, Twitter, AirBnb, Evernote, and countless others—have been built without spending a dime on traditional marketing techniques. No press releases, no PR firm, no Madison Avenue, no billboards in Times Square.
It wasn’t luck that took them from tiny start-ups to massive success. They have a new strategy. It’s called Growth Hacking. And it works.
A Growth Hacker is someone who rejects what “marketing” is supposed to be and replaces it only with tools that are testable, trackable, and scalable. Growth Hackers rely on inexpensive tactics like e-mail, pay-per-click ads, blogs, and platform APIs. They chase real results in a field that was dominated by gut instincts for nearly a century. They reject the traditional marketing worship of all things big: big budgets, big campaigns, big opening weekends. Instead, they embrace the opposite: taking a start-up from nothing to something, launching a Kickstarter project, building something that truly spreads.
Growth Hacker Marketing offers both a new mindset and a new set of rules. Bestselling author Ryan Holiday, the former director of marketing for American Apparel, will convince you of the urgency of this awakening. He shows why the game has changed forever and what to do about it—whether you are an aspiring marketer, an entrepreneur, or a Fortune 500 senior executive."
Hacking the Creative Brain - Web Directions 2015Denise Jacobs
As tech professionals, what we need is a way to work better so that we can create more, right? Through exploring various concepts and approaches, including the neuroscience of creativity, productivity techniques, and emerging practices that spur innovation, we'll discover not only the ways in which our brains work best, but also what’s behind the times when we feel on fire with creativity and when we don't. We’ll translate this information into processes and techniques for dramatically enhanced creative productivity. Beware: this session challenges the standard norms around concentration, focus, productivity, and may change how you work…for the better.
Born in London in the 1960s, planning has struggled to keep pace with the significant changes in consumer behaviors. Here we’ll explore how planning can evolve to make advertising more effective, both now, and into the future.
How to measure Digital looks at the important role of Key Performance Indicators and how you create them. It takes a Communication Objective and turns it into Strategy that leads to Tactics to support the Strategy. The final piece is putting in place Key Performance Indicators which makes up the parts of the Communications Objective.
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Four graphical trends in slide design, we observed in last 6 months 2014-2015.
Flat design (metro UI), Hand drawn elements, Retro style photohraphs, Watercolor shapes. Examples of PowerPoint slides with watercolor charts, tables, doodled shapes, quotation backgrounds.
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Responsive Discovery: The underpants of a great web project Steve Fisher
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Your discovery process can make or break your responsive project. Learn from our great successes—and horrible ideas that didn’t go quite as planned. Practical examples will show you what makes a discovery process work:
Understand how a responsive design process impacts team dynamics and workflow.
Learn how to encourage collaboration across departments and silos.
Find out how a responsive discovery can change a project (and why that’s okay).
Get cozy with your customers, stakeholders, and content authors. We are all allies in the fight to make the web a better place.
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As a UX designer, Joe Bond is interested in using peer-to-peer mentorship as a primer for creating inclusive, active local design communities. He talks about his own experiences in creating communities to meet and learn from people that are solving meaningful problems in a variety of design disciplines and methodologies.
A few of my top-of-mind takeaways from this year's Planningness event. Be sure to check out my original piece for more context and details: bit.ly/1sbEu6n
2. Sometimes, just for fun I walk over to HR and
have a peek at the résumés people send in.
3. Sometimes, just for fun I walk over to HR and
have a peek at the résumés people send in.
Let me tell you it ain’t pretty.
4. About 90% were made using a Word
template with (and here’s the kicker)
Times New Roman size 12 font.
5. This makes me feel
incredibly sad.
About 90% were made using a Word
template with (and here’s the kicker)
Times New Roman size 12 font.
6. Lesson 101:
The person you’re trying
to reach is probably:
busy bored overwhelmed
thinking about lunch rushed
etc.
7. Kudos to Microsoft for taking us this far,
but if you want to make it to the top of the pile
you better put a bit more effort into it.
8. In a time where people a re going to Google you, do you
?
have more than just that boring paper résumé
9. There’s a huge shift in advertising today.
Smart brands know that they have to sell you much
more than benefits, they have to sell you an experience.
Blentec - Will It Blend? Old Spice - The Man Your Man
Could Smell Like
10. There’s a huge shift in advertising today.
Smart brands know that they have to sell you much
more than benefits, they have to sell you an experience.
Blentec - Will It Blend? Old Spice - The Man Your Man
Could Smell Like
And why shouldn’t your job pitch do the same?
11. “
What chance is there that your
totally average résumé,
describing a totally average
academic and work career
is going to get you most jobs?
12. erage guy
k out this av ackground
"H ey Bill! Chec academic b
with a n average nally average work
ly exceptio e he's cheap!!"
and real ce! Mayb
experien
13. Do you hire people that way?
Do you choose products that way?
If you're driving a Chevy Cavalier
and working for the Social Security
Administration, perhaps,
but those days are long gone.
14. People are buying only
one thing from you:
The way the engagement
(hiring you, working with you, dating you, using
your product or service, learning from you)
makes them feel.
15. So how do you
make people feel?
-Seth Godin (smart guy)
16. “This is controversial,
but here goes: I think if
you're remarkable,
amazing or just plain
spectacular, you
probably shouldn't
have a résumé at all.”
18. web designers have portfolios,
directors have show reels,
models have books,
Seth has a website.
19. web designers have portfolios,
directors have show reels,
models have books,
Seth has a website.
Why shouldn’t you showcase your
work and make it easier for
people to share your story?
20. so I asked myself:
If you work in an office (like most people)
what tools do you have to tell your story,
showcase your work and create a résumé
that will knock the socks off the people you
want to work with?
24. Slideshare is one of the biggest most vibrant
1-5
business communities online today
Super easy to share your presentation
(privately or publicly)
Nothing to download
Works on every computer or mobile device
Embeds nicely in Facebook, LinkedIn & Blogs
25. Indexes beautifully in Google
6-10
People can comment and recommend you
Allows you to tell your story visually and
gives life to otherwise boring bullet points
Gives the person you’re trying to reach a
break from the mundane
If you get lots of views, you’re in high demand buddy!
26. It’s a crazy idea, but putting yourself
out there and making it easy for
people to spread your story (or ideas)
is the name of the game now.
30. The basics:
Full name: Age: Nationality:
Jesse Desjardins 28 Canadian
(pronounced: day zhar dan)
Current location: Languages:
Toronto, Canada French & English
36. The first product I designed was a community for travelers.
To this day it remains the best place for young
travelers to find work, buy things and connect.
37. We then launched our own mobile product.
I created the marketing and packaging.
2009
38. Being at the forefront of travel and social media
I also spoke at conferences around the world
on behalf of the company.
40. I then took a 6 month contract to work in Paris at an ad
agency setting up an online community for artists.
2010
41. Today I’m consulting and designing for
a handful of really great people.
My latest project was for the
tourism industry in South Africa.
2010
42. I’m currently back home in Toronto where
I’m working on what will be an epic 2011.
2011
43. If you’re interested in working together,
or just want to say hi find me on:
Twitter:
@jessedee
site:
JesseDesjardins.com
slideshare:
slideshare.net/GlobalGossip
THANKS!
44. There’s no n eed to showboat or
be over the top with your résumé.
Something short, sweet and simple will do.
Slid eshare is just one way,
but there are many, many more.
45. Sure some people mig ht think i’m degrading
the sacred all mighty résumés tradition...
46. and some might not want you to stand
out so much, b ut really... are those the
people you rea lly want to work with?
47. Face it, it’s tough out there.
Times New Roman 12 just isn’t
good enough anymore.
48. The only people who get paid
enough, get paid what they’re
worth are people who don't
follow the instruction book, who
create art, who are innovative,
who work without a map. That
option is now available to
everyone so take it.
-Seth Godin
(I told you he was smart)
54. UPDATE:
In 60 days this presentation received 30,000 views
It was featured on 2 major blogs and around
70% of the comments were negative
55. UPDATE:
In 60 days this presentation received 30,000 views
It was featured on 2 major blogs and around
70% of the comments were negative
But more importantly, I received plenty of requests for
new work and connected with some amazing people
56. But my favorite is that while I was in Cape Town,
Mariska drove an hour to find me to say that she
created a visual C.V. after being inspired by this
presentation and got a bursary to attend university.
57. But my favorite is that while I was in Cape Town,
Mariska drove an hour to find me to say that she
created a visual C.V. after being inspired by this
presentation and got a bursary to attend university.
This made it all worthwhile.