A terrible idea, just like how tag clouds are a terrible idea.
I was talking to some HCI folks recently, and they said that in a study people thought there browser was broken when they encountered a tag cloud.
Simply does not work.
Rethinking the Resumé - Skill Clouds
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Re: Rethinking the Resumé - Skill Clouds
#12So, Hacker News readers who have hired people based on resumes before: How would you feel, and what would you think, if you encountered this on an applicant's resume?
I have done a lot of interviewing of programming candidates. If I saw a tag cloud like this, I would put this in the pile with the guys who list their skills and give themselves little unicode 'star ratings' like a movie review, in each skill. That is, 'only consider for interview if we are getting desperate to fill a seat'. It says the quality of the candidate is unpredictable but with strong odds of being flaky.