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

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Post by mdwrigh2 »

cperciva wrote: post #87
timr wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"isn't that half a degree?" Probably not. Most "college credit" earned in US high schools is unfocused coursework that gets you out of (some of) your general-ed requirements. Lots of universities won't even transfer the stuff, and if they do, it's not typically treated as real college credit. Aside from that, thanks to the prevalence of AP courses it's much easier (and more common) for high school kids to get college…

Aha, quite different from Canada, then. Up here it's unusual for students to get any college credit while in high school, and when it happens it's typically no more than 10-15 credits of AP or IB credits.

I won't say it's common, but it isn't all that unusual in the US either, at least among my group of friends. I came in with only 20-something hours and was on the low end (really focued on my math, finished all the necessary credits for my Comp Sci. degree before leaving high school). A friend of mine, on the other hand, came in with just under 70 credits, but they were all the gen-ed with some upper level math thrown in. While that'd normally be a little over half a degree, she added a second major that balanced it out.

A number of my friends did this though, so I don't think it's quite as big of an accomplishment in the US than elsewhere. Though I'll be the first to admit that my group of friends tended to be the high achievers in high school/university.

-- A undergraduate in CS/Mathematics

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

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Post by timr »

cperciva wrote: post #87
timr wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"isn't that half a degree?" Probably not. Most "college credit" earned in US high schools is unfocused coursework that gets you out of (some of) your general-ed requirements. Lots of universities won't even transfer the stuff, and if they do, it's not typically treated as real college credit. Aside from that, thanks to the prevalence of AP courses it's much easier (and more common) for high school kids to get college…

Aha, quite different from Canada, then. Up here it's unusual for students to get any college credit while in high school, and when it happens it's typically no more than 10-15 credits of AP or IB credits.

Yeah, that's what it was like in the US 10-15 years ago. AP courses were still pretty new/unique when I was in high school, but these days they're as common as clubs or intramural sports.

One thing I hate about bragging about that sort of thing is that it's (unfortunately) more of a reflection on the quality of the high school you attended than it is on your character. The best students at the worst high schools in the US don't have the same access to AP courses as the average student at the best high schools.

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

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Post by mdwrigh2 »

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.

I agree, and actually have open sourced my LaTeX resume in case anyone wants to use bits and pieces of it:

https://github.com/mdwrigh2/resume

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

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Post by methodin »

My overall impression of this resume was that I wanted to go see the actual websites this person made. Which is a far better impression than a cookie-cutter bulleted list of facts that flower what you actual did at your job. As the meme states, "Haters gonna hate" - which certainly remains true judging by the lengthy responses here.

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

#96

Post by tesseract »

Helianthus16 wrote: post #81
cperciva wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe things are different in the US, but "earned 64 college credits before graduating from high school" sounds pretty anomalous to me -- isn't that half a degree?

speaking as someone whose college education was aided by a significant amount of AP credit, this is a silly thing to brag about. Schools will vary by which AP exams they accept and how many hours they award, and I'm sure this is true about all pre-college transfer credit. It's at least equivalent to bragging about your SAT score.

If it's dual-enrollment credit that would be a bit more meaningful than AP credits. Still kind of a silly thing to put on a resume, I think.

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

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Post by ifthen »

psadauskas wrote: post #57
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".…

I think its a terrible infographic, to be sure, but I also think its good enough to stand out from a pile of resumes on the HR or hiring manager's desk. Probably good enough to get an interview out of it.

The minor design tweaks I’d make aside, it‘s creative and I love it, but having tried the creative cv route before, headhunters and/or HR always come back with “Can you send us something formatted for Word?”

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

#98

Post by usedtolurk »

moron4hire wrote: post #61
Spyckie wrote: post #24

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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…

but even as a designer she has failed to demonstrate good design sense. All she has demonstrated is that she's good at copying the en vogue style.

There must be thousands of jobs that want just that.

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

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Post by jarek »

jimbokun wrote: post #85
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".…

"Has a graphic which must be interpreted simply to find the last few projects the candidate worked on." Bug or feature? This could very well cause a potential employer to stop and spend more time on the resume, and end up getting to know more about her than the person whose first couple lines of plain text did not catch the employer's interest. "Straightjackets the candidate's work experience into "technology used" i…

"This could very well cause a potential employer to stop and spend more time on the resume, and end up getting to know more about her than the person whose first couple lines of plain text did not catch the employer's interest."

Or it could cause the employer to stare at the bafflingly unfamiliar format for the alloted 30 seconds and then move the application into the not-selected pile.

One of things that bug me about most resume recommendations is that it's incredibly difficult to make a truly general one. For every screener who will be impressed by your cover letter/section X/feature X there is another one who holds the exact opposite opinion, and most of the time you don't know who will be screening your application or what their preferences are. Very few of these recommendation/good resume template/excellent resume showcase posts mention this.

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

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Post by Charuru »

moron4hire wrote: post #61
Spyckie wrote: post #24

Earlier 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…

but even as a designer she has failed to demonstrate good design sense. All she has demonstrated is that she's good at copying the en vogue style.

>but even as a designer she has failed to demonstrate good design sense

Can somebody explain what's wrong with this design?

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