Hey guys, I’ve been busy for a bit, but I made up this new resume for the TG tour, looking for feedback if you’d like to comment.
cheers.
-chris
Tags: Resume
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Hey guys, I’ve been busy for a bit, but I made up this new resume for the TG tour, looking for feedback if you’d like to comment.
cheers.
-chris
Tags: Resume
I love the idea . what you used to build that
Really cool. What software did you use for that? Would you mind sharing the source file? I’d love to adapt it for myself.
It’s a neat concept, but if it came across my desk, I’d be sorely tempted to write you off as someone who spent a ton of time creating something cute but ultimately lacking. All I see when I look at it is someone who’s worked at a LOT of places but has essentially told me nothing about what he did AT those places. Unless you’re adding a supplemental page detailing what experience you bring from specific projects (roles, titles, responsibilities, etc.) I don’t see this as something that would get you much work.
The format itself is really neat, though, and if you could find a way to shoehorn some more hard data about yourself into it, you might have a winner.
I agree with Scott if it was a hardcopy but think its pretty cool if you set it up as a “clickable”/”hoverable” map on your site with a “normal” format for download.
I like the visuals, and love the omni-graffle idea, but I agree the key thing your resume should communicate is what you accomplished at your jobs, not where you worked.
Perhaps on a second page would be in order, which could be visual too, but which should focus more on what you did, and what you know.
It’s beautiful. Ignore the naysayers – if they don’t appreciate a resume like this, you don’t want to work for them.
ok, I am basically saying ‘ditto’ here to mark and some others… however I would say the visual is a great way to impart a general ‘map’ of experience and time relations… heck if you want to get crazy then generate a graphviz map of projects broken down by domain experience (including language and such) and the relationships between them.
You could tailor this (with a lovely Python script) to each domain you are targeting to show visual folk like me to connect the dots.
Mind mapping basically…
Awesome feedback guys, I can’t believe I spelled corporation wrong, nice catch. I’ll get that fixed later. I’ll try to put up the .graffle file too (this was made with omni-graffle, took about 3 hours to do).
I do agree it’s more of an overview and less of a project-experience-oriented resume, but I’ve been thinking a lot about (and looking at) resumes lately, and I feel like what you really need to do is grasp someone’s attention first. This is why http://www.percious.com is listed at the top, and that’s about all listed (no address, phone number, etc.) The other thing I was thinking about doing was to add an image map with links to provide more information about the things I have worked on.
Maybe it’d be fun to include a second page which is a ?runnable? source-code explanation of my projects. That seems fun. I was also thinking about doing something like a tree, where the trunk is the education portion of my resume, especially since my experience has sort of branched out in recent years.
As for the graphical resume being written-off: I disagree. I cannot take absolute credit for this idea since it was borrowed from: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/cliff-kuang/design-innovation/infographic-day-ditch-resume-make-chart-instead (see the second chart). Yeah I have moved around a bit, but I had a bit of instability early on while I found a place that fit me both technically and ethically. Honestly, if someone came to me with a resume that was unique and obviously put some thought and time into their design, I’d try to find out more about them, that’s the goal. Pride in one’s work is as important as the amount of work done. Taking time out to express your self in a unique way separates you from the pack of Serif-Font, huge name at the top, references available upon request. This definitely has value in my book, not shows someone’s ability to waste time.
This is an inventive and unique idea. Shows a lot of creativity! However, it may not be the type of resumé for all job applications.
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Thanks Chris, good post.