Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps • Hacker News Board

Re: Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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Post by bokchoi » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 10:06 PM UTC

maxwin wrote: post #19

bokchoi wrote: post #17

No hire. Don't make me click around to read your resume.

You maybe a really boring employer,then. You should appreciate the creativity. :D

When the resumes flood in after a job posting those that are not easily readable are tossed without a second thought.

Yep, I'm boring.

Re: Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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Post by matt_is » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 11:07 PM UTC

I made something similar a year ago, minus google maps:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9683205/Resume-with-horizontal-tim...

Re: Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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Post by eru » Tue, Mar 09, 2010, 11:44 PM UTC

egutman wrote: post #20

He could have gone one step further and created a .kml file for a virtual tour in Google Earth. That would have been impressive.

Why? The threshold to looking at it is higher than using the web only.

Re: Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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Post by dirtbox » Wed, Mar 10, 2010, 12:02 AM UTC

markbnine wrote: post #15

I would have embedded the map in another page, and designed around it. The Google cruft doesn't seem resume worthy.

I don't know, I quite like the utilitarian feel to just leaving it vanilla.

Re: Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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Post by robgough » Wed, Mar 10, 2010, 12:39 AM UTC

RK wrote: post #16

tankman wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

I don't know why your friend didn't know that, but I would imagine most of us here in the UK would know what you meant by that. Not that I use it terribly often.