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Your position is unusual but not that unusual, and you're lucky that, more than in other trades, good design recruiters are usually more interested in the quality of your portfolio and what it shows of your aesthetic sense, creativity and ability to meet a brief than they are in doing a box-ticking exercise on your resume. (but not all recruiters are good ...

Write a really good cover letter Your prospective employer, if they're worth working for, wants to know where your passions lie and that you can communicate well. Depending on what kind of org you want to work in, show a little personality and skip the overly formal accountant-type letter. Make sure your work samples rock Once you have their interest, ...

What I'd suggest is first check if there are any open positions that fit your skills, and then maybe also write cold applications (they may not be very likely to get you a job, but you never know). Write a short letter explaining why you are valuable (as usual) and add a portfolio with your best pieces. As it was said before, I also think it counts a lot ...

I wouldn't give the satisfaction of a link. Pick a few of your best pieces and put it into a well designed PDF along with your résumé. Include that as well as the separate résumé file. Be wary of resolution to memory balance, you don't want it to be too large because different companies will have different limits on their email. State in the cover letter / ...

In my experience, a good portfolio is (almost) all you need. Experience is of course very, very valuable, but if you have been freelancing and you can showcase your work, everything else will come second. If I have to hire another designer, I don't care about their training. Now, of course, I am not a company or a studio. For them, having experience in the ...

It's all who you know. If you feel you don't have the formal education to prop up a résumé, then you need to make contacts and spread the word so that people learn about you from your work first. If your work is then good enough, that becomes the path to the interview and potentially the job, rather than the résumé and the ...

I think there are some good answers here, but I feel like there's one or two points missing. (Now, I have never looked into other people's resumés myself, nor am I a very experienced designer. So the following may not be right or as important as I feel it is. Still, let me share my thoughts.) First off, you mentioned providing both a fancy resumé and a ...