I would love to create a mashup of something like this with http://PleaseRobMe.com
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Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps
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#12From the Chile push pin regarding interests:
taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers
Any UK people care to translate that?
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#13From the Chile push pin regarding interests: taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers Any UK people care to translate that?
"taking the piss" = "making fun of"
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#14As a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful. I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé approach and impressing their potential employer. For the next iteration, non-truncated location descriptions would be needed.
"non-truncated location descriptions"
Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text.
Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.
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#15I would have embedded the map in another page, and designed around it. The Google cruft doesn't seem resume worthy.
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#16From the Chile push pin regarding interests: taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers Any UK people care to translate that?
"taking the piss" = "making fun of"
I guess it could be worse if the phrase were "taking a piss on my wife"...
I once had a friend from England ask me very skeptically if you could really say someone was just "fucking with you" to mean someone was just joking around. So I guess it goes both ways.
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#17No hire. Don't make me click around to read your resume.
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#18As a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful. I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé approach and impressing their potential employer. For the next iteration, non-truncated location descriptions would be needed.
"non-truncated location descriptions" Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text. Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.
Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That would make things clearer.
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#19No hire. Don't make me click around to read your resume.
You maybe a really boring employer,then. You should appreciate the creativity. :D
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#20He could have gone one step further and created a .kml file for a virtual tour in Google Earth. That would have been impressive.