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Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by brandan »

GhotiFish wrote: post #129
brandan wrote: post #127

30 years of side scrolling gaming history on computers. four arrow key options for movement. this person chose up and down to represent left and right. user interface experience ( ) master ( ) proficient ( ) beginner (x) antagonistically counter-intuitive and user-unfriendly

You are wrong to judge his skills this harshly in this domain, he introduced the only thing you needed to know, and he stuck with it the whole way through. It's unstated actions that have to be intuitive, but this page outright explains the only action required. Nothing counter-intuitive or unfriendly here.

ah, yes. up is left. there's nothing counterintuitive about that.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by auctiontheory »

Cool project. A few small suggestions:

(1) Fix the spelling of After Effects.

(2) You might want to reverse the order of jobs so that the most recent is listed first, since that is what recruiters will be most interested in seeing.

(3) The text within your job description boxes can be tightened to highlight your specific contributions and their impact.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by oftenwrong »

teh_klev wrote: post #87
FLUX-YOU wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1. Send email requesting a 2 page resume 2. Add to resume pile Done! This situation should never occur on your behalf: Say I have a pile of resumes and what not on my desk, and this.

>"Send email requesting a 2 page resume" It's an extra step in the process for the hiring bod, the resume should come before this. Also first time load on IE, Chrome and Firefox did this: http://i.imgur.com/Wn62Rh4.png At first I thought this was some cryptic "why the lucky stiff" malarky. Only after hitting refresh did the site load properly, I almost closed the tab, he might not be so lucky with someone who is a li…

>And finally what happens if the site goes down or gets slashdot/hn/reddited?

It would be great to have that many eyes on my resume.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by egonschiele »

danm_cc wrote: post #49

Ctrl-P -> 29 blank pages. Maybe script in some printable form. Other than that, great stuff.

I was going to say something sarcastic, but if I could print this page and get a proper resume I would be blown away. Wouldn't be hard to do with the proper stylesheet either. Even so I am blown away already by how cool this is!

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by angersock »

lmm wrote: post #37
andrewingram wrote: post #34

Cute, and very impressive. But I cringe whenever I see a resumé where someone rates each of their skills on a scale. We're all familiar with the idea that true masters are generally the first to admit that they have a lot more to learn.

I'm told that Google asks employees to rate their technology skills on a scale of 1-10. Guido van Rossum puts his Python skills at a 7.

Pity be the fool who puts C++ above perhaps a 6.

I recall Mike Acton basically saying in an interview that if an applicant claimed expert knowledge of C or C++, the gloves came off during the interview--Acton is one of (possibly the?) head tech bros as Insomniac Games, and has done a lot of work dealing with such arcane things as using the Cell SPUs optimally. I would not want to take on that challenge in an interview unwittingly.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by logicallee »

princess3000 wrote: post #116

The lack of imagination here is just staggering. Holy cow. I mean first and foremost you're just getting a link to this directly, who's to say he doesn't also have a RESUME.DOC file that he sends out, including a link to this page? Beyond that, I feel like this guy just might be looking for companies that are willing to take 60 seconds out of looking through a stack of nearly-identical paper resumes to indulge someth…

maybe they just don't want him writing version 2.0 on the clock.

On the other hand maybe writing resume presentations is his favorite home hobby.

That would certainly be an interesting parallel with startup employers' expectations of programmers, who are supposed to craft github repos at home in their spare time to get hired. Really, this is the design equivalent.

Re: Interactive Resume

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Post by mncolinlee »

princess3000 wrote: post #116

The lack of imagination here is just staggering. Holy cow. I mean first and foremost you're just getting a link to this directly, who's to say he doesn't also have a RESUME.DOC file that he sends out, including a link to this page? Beyond that, I feel like this guy just might be looking for companies that are willing to take 60 seconds out of looking through a stack of nearly-identical paper resumes to indulge someth…

He probably does have a RESUME.DOC file. The point here is that his interactive resume is very likely to reach people who would not otherwise see his generic *.DOC file. It looks like he got some job interviews simply by doing this work, so whether it adhered to your platonic ideal of the perfect resume or not, it succeeded. That's all that matters.

A+ for a solid advertisement for himself.

The point of the hiring process is not to compare paper candidates, but to compare human beings.

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