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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

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Post by ahlatimer »

Swannie wrote: post #73
famousactress wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"No reasonable employer cares about college credits earned in high school, the age you were when you coded your first website, or what platforms you tech-supported in school, and yet that material consumes more visual weight than the number of years the candidate has doing Rails development." I think this is a ridiculous statement, but we almost certainly have a different definition of what makes an employer (cough)…

No, he's right. It's hard enough trying to keep normal stuff to two pages without all that random stuff. My "high school" (UK secondary school), gets 1 whole line. I dropped the bit about being the top student (at GCSE) in my school years ago. OK, I admit, I have dedicated 4 whole lines (3-5% maybe) on my C.V. to my personal interests. If I get an inexperienced interviewer who wants to make me comfortable they provid…

I'm not even out of college, and I've already dropped the high school bit from my resume entirely. Does anyone really care what a potential hire did in high school once they've had a real job or graduated from college (save someone being an extreme outlier that completed most of their college degree in HS or what have you)?

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by gte910h »

chc wrote: post #129
gte910h wrote: post #125

To those who dislike it: Jamie Kite has succeed in doing far more than most people with their resumes: She's gotten thousands of people to look at it and talk about her resume. Is it the best infographic? Parts are pretty serviceable. Is it the worst? Not by a long shot. Does it use a lot of common styles seen today, yup. Will it infuriate some people? Oh hell yes from Ptack's reaction. But did it work? Yes. "Logical…

If getting talked about is all you need, just put a naked photo of yourself holding bacon on the resume and submit it to Reddit. Being much talked about is only inherently good if you aspire to be Paris Hilton.

So what if she just happens to be a mediocre developer designer hybrid? This exposure is very likely going to be a stepping stone to a better job than she'd get without it.

Your example is about a stunt unrelated to showing qualifications. This actually shows some. It shows some history, and shows what skills were used where.

Is she a perfect ubergod? Nope. Does she smile and perfect ruby fall from the sky? Probably not. Does she probably have a good enough knowledge of rails and photoshop to do many a task? I'm guessing she could do all of 4 gigs I know of at the moment using skills she has. Are they the epitome of grand rails design, nope, but they likely fit her skillset.

Hacker News people have this very odd elitism thing going on expecting everyone to be functionally speaking manga cum laud from Stanford.

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by chc »

gte910h wrote: post #132
chc wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If getting talked about is all you need, just put a naked photo of yourself holding bacon on the resume and submit it to Reddit. Being much talked about is only inherently good if you aspire to be Paris Hilton.

So what if she just happens to be a mediocre developer designer hybrid? This exposure is very likely going to be a stepping stone to a better job than she'd get without it. Your example is about a stunt unrelated to showing qualifications. This actually shows some. It shows some history, and shows what skills were used where. Is she a perfect ubergod? Nope. Does she smile and perfect ruby fall from the sky? Probably…

I'm not sure how you got elitism from what I wrote. I just mean that praising somebody because something they did generated some controversy is going too far in the opposite direction.

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by chc »

mnutt wrote: post #128
Maro wrote: post #17

This infography resume scores high points for standing out and being memorable, which is important as many companies receive many CVs. It completely fails as a tool for communicating how good she is at what she "does". I guess it's Rails? The CV is confusing. Also, it gives the impression that the person is more interested in style than substance . I guess that's okay if you're an artist/designer (?), not so good if…

Are you arguing that it shouldn't have been an infographic, or that the infographic should have been better? Other than the list of tools, I thought it was well done and showed she had an eye for aesthetics, which most developers either lack or actively shun. Which is not to say that some people don't absorb the information better in different ways. That's probably why there's a "Plaintext" link at the top.

I don't know what he meant, but I can imagine how an infographic could demonstrate both her skill at design and her skill at programming — it's just that this one only really even tries for the former.

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by epo »

tptacek wrote: post #3

Not good. * Has a graphic which must be interpreted simply to find the last few projects the candidate worked on. * Uses a proportional diagram scheme that is (a) worse than pie charts (an achievement) and (b) requires a color coded legend to illustrate the simple clause: "[Project Name]: Rails, CSS, jQuery". * Straightjackets the candidate's work experience into "technology used" instead of "accomplishments earned".…

The point of a resume is to generate sufficient interest to get talking, ideally an interview but even a screening phone call is better than being ignored.

For someone who's interest is in working in design and development this is a very distinctive marketing document. Yes it could be improved, but the fact that it is attracting attention means it worked.

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by pluies »

gregorym wrote: post #130
GrandMasterBirt wrote: post #64

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Do resumes REALLY tell you anything? This is an incredible overview of the woman. She spent quite some time on making such a resume, much more interesting and easier to read than a regular resume, shows her skills off, gets the introduction, shows which tech shes worked with. Everything needed is there. So vuala. I think this is great. You still need an interview to get details on projects. What else can you expect?…

> So vuala So voila Sorry I am french I had to point that out :)

Being French too and _even more_ pedantic, I have to point out it's actually spelt "voilà", not "voila".

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by comex »

enjo wrote: post #127
cabalamat wrote: post #54

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> I would definitely spend some more time to look into the applicant. So would I. > Yes, I would never hire her for algorithm optimization, but if she was building a website that doesn't innovate technologically but rather creates social, cultural, aesthetic or other value (which the majority of startups do) - I would take a second look. She'd also probably be good at doing design / front-end parts of a website while…

This applicant I suppose. What about the next 50? I'd grow REALLY tired of trying to parse through all of it.

Isn't that true for just about anything (at first) original and novel?

Re: This may be the best resume I have ever seen

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Post by eftpotrm »

siddhant wrote: post #43

For designers, okay. But what's wrong with a simple LaTeX CV? Its clean, gets the point across, and frankly, it stands out from the other badly-formatted Word documents.

And yet I've never seen a recruiter ask for anything but a Word document; this seems to be significantly because they then strip off your contact details and put their own header on it, mangling your carefully thought through presentation....

I do wonder what ueful place recruiters still have in the process; they often seem to be providing a service that amounts to little more than running an advert and forwarding emails so why are they so highly paid for a variant on secretarial work?

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