where's the app that gets linkedin data and renders this?
I'm not sure LinkedIn has quite this much information, but after a short search -
This may be the best resume I have ever seen
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Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#142The best resume I have ever seen is this one: http://www.squicky.org/cv/
It is funny for a moment but that is all.
It would be all if he was some random English BS major graduate from Idaho. The fact that he has a PhD from MIT in EECS changes the underlying message to a "I am confident/arrogant enough that I'll land a top job despite the goofy resume".
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#143I think it's a great resume. Does the job quickly: Do I want to schedule an interview with him/her y/n? y
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Willingness to experiment and try new things is an asset for a developer. Inability to edit oneself, or to walk away from an experiment when it has clearly failed, is a dealbreaking liability. Infographics ON a resume, good or mediocre: OK. Infographics AS a resume, if amazing: OK. Infographics AS a resume, if not amazing: VERY BAD.
Seeing multiple comments of yours in here (all negative) I can't help but wonder if you have some kind of axe to grind with her? Yes, her infographic isn't flawless . But it isn't bad either, it is in fact pretty damn good. And most certainly good enough to stand out in a pile of standard-resumes, which is about as much as it can possibly accomplish.
It's bad infographic. It presents a lot of unnecessary info in had to parse way.
It stands out just because it is different. I quit considering being different just for the sake of being different to be a good thing long time ago.
To quote Jobs again, design is how it works. This was about how it looks. It looks OK, it works badly.
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#145A fun exercise, but somehow I distrust infographics on principle. Overly big fonts make feel stupid and foolish for example. OK, I got it he programmed for FIVE years
FIVE!!!!!! 5555555 5 5 5 5 5 55 5 5 Five five five five five
FIVEFI
F
FIV
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That's how it makes me feel. In general if you treat somebody as if he is stupid, it'll make him feel stupid. Infographics treat people as if they are stupid - bright shiny colors, big fonts, short sentences...
Maybe it already has to do with chunking. "5" is really just one chunk, the number 5. But a big, ginormous 5 doesn't fit into one brain slot anymore. It fill the whole brain and bounces around inside of it.
Anyway, I don't like infographics...
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#146http://www.tahlent.com/ is working on similar lines.
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
>but even as a designer she has failed to demonstrate good design sense Can somebody explain what's wrong with this design?
tptacek did an excellent job of explaining it for you already. It sounds a bit like you are thinking of design as "making things pretty", and it's not. It's about communication. The message this resume is communicating is that the author also feels that design is just about ornamentation, and the only way it could be more obvious is if the diagram were in the shape of a giant duck. I have to assume she doesn't actual…
Design is about communication, but it does not exclude ornamentation. Design can be ornamental (if the purpose of the resume is to highlight some design skill), however it should not reduce the readability of data as this one does.
Having just read "The visual display of quantitative information" I have this to say to the designer of the resume: remove non-data ink. Increase data density and readability. Especially readability.
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#148The best resume is no resume. Don't tell me where you've worked show me what you've made. Don't tell me what certificates you have, show me what you can do no. The best way for me to know what you can do in the future is to see what you've done in the past, and are doing right now. I hope resumes die out. At least in software anyway. On a related note, I think I just might be at a point in my career where I never nee…
Well, you might have heard the story about how C creator Ken Thompson was asked to take a mandatory language test at Google before being able to check-in code :)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_ou...
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#149Witb his skill in non-ASCII text, he should be able to get a great job at Wolfram Alpha.
Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, this is not your type then. I would definitely spend some more time to look into the applicant. Yes, for pure coders, this is a terrible resume. It looks like she is using the right side of the brain for something left-sided. But, that's the point. How many coders do you know can show an interest in both design and code (same for designers)? To have an aptitude and interest in both code and design is something…
> Yes, for pure coders, this is a terrible resume. It looks like she is using the right side of the brain for something left-sided. Urgh... I really hate to go into rant mode because I know what you're trying to say isn't really relevant to this. However, as an incredibly right-brained person who is a good programmer (or so I like to think :-) and has absolutely zero design skill, I'm always a bit annoyed by this. Th…
:) rant appreciated. I actually harbor the same suspicions, but for the sake of general understanding it was the best way I could frame the issue.