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    • NerdyDadN
      NerdyDad
      last edited by

      Anybody ever heard of Resumup.com? Evidently its a place where you can create visual resumes. How appealing would this be really for HR & Hiring Managers?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Worthless, IMHO.

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        • black3dynamiteB
          black3dynamite
          last edited by black3dynamite

          Looks like something you would use for showing of stats of an athlete.

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            bnrstnr
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            The infographic one looks like a placemat for a restaurant or something crazy... "Yep, here's my resume on a 24"x36" print for you"

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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              This is a terrible setup. It's hard to find what is needed and this looks like it is meant to be used as blotter paper on an old fashioned writing desk. The big graphic in the middle doesn't work for real people and only looks cool because of the contrived data of the fake resume for Bob Smith. Look at it, in 1996 he had four jobs at once. If he had one job at a time like normal people, or any gaps, this would look awful.

              Many of the sections make no sense for normal people. Identity? WTF is that? Languages? Most people just have the one and you know what it is from the resume format. Achievements? WTF? And a Gardening section?

              This is AWFUL.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @bnrstnr
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                @bnrstnr said in Visual Resumes?:

                The infographic one looks like a placemat for a restaurant or something crazy... "Yep, here's my resume on a 24"x36" print for you"

                I was thinking exactly the same thing. Print these out, let the local diner use them.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
                  last edited by

                  OMG I want to do that. Make hilarious placemats of my face for no reason. Have random info about me. And pay diners to use them as placemats.

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    I like how you can "show your creativity" by "selecting the show your creativity" format.

                    Um, that's not how demonstrating creativity works.

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                      bnrstnr @scottalanmiller
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                      @scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

                      OMG I want to do that. Make hilarious placemats of my face for no reason. Have random info about me. And pay diners to use them as placemats.

                      Ad space with the local real estate guys face right under where your glass goes. That's totally what this resume is 😄

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

                        Um, that's not how demonstrating creativity works.

                        hahahahahah

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          This system seems to be based on a few key misconceptions:

                          • That 100 years of designing intelligent resumes led to bad designs.
                          • That you will be printing out your resume on large format, high quality colour printers at Kinkos for $3 a copy.
                          • That you will be handing a printed resume to someone.
                          • That the resume you hand in is also the one that gets used.
                          • That people won't laugh and laugh at you.
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                          • IRJI
                            IRJ @NerdyDad
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                            @nerdydad said in Visual Resumes?:

                            Anybody ever heard of Resumup.com? Evidently its a place where you can create visual resumes. How appealing would this be really for HR & Hiring Managers?

                            I think you would be placed in the trash bin immediately.

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                            • IRJI
                              IRJ @IRJ
                              last edited by

                              @irj said in Visual Resumes?:

                              @nerdydad said in Visual Resumes?:

                              Anybody ever heard of Resumup.com? Evidently its a place where you can create visual resumes. How appealing would this be really for HR & Hiring Managers?

                              I think you would be placed in the trash bin immediately.

                              Well maybe not... They would probably keep the resume to make fun of it...

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                              • brianlittlejohnB
                                brianlittlejohn
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                                When I hear Visual Resume, this is the first thing that pops into my head.

                                Youtube Video

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                                • EddieJenningsE
                                  EddieJennings
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                                  Methinnks the visual resume will not perform any better than my current standard resume.

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                                  • NetworkNerdN
                                    NetworkNerd
                                    last edited by

                                    I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller @NetworkNerd
                                      last edited by

                                      @networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:

                                      I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.

                                      A blog is helpful for really senior positions where people take the time to research your writings. Spiceworks isn’t a tech community and I think having a project list there actively looks really bad.

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                                      • JaredBuschJ
                                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        @scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

                                        @networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:

                                        I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.

                                        A blog is helpful for really senior positions where people take the time to research your writings. Spiceworks isn’t a tech community and I think having a project list there actively looks really bad.

                                        It is not a tech community only in your literal definition of the terms. Whether you like it or not, the colloquial definition of the word applies here and it is a tech community.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                                          @jaredbusch said in Visual Resumes?:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in Visual Resumes?:

                                          @networknerd said in Visual Resumes?:

                                          I think having a blog or some projects on your Spiceworks community account page would work better to reinforce your normal resume as visual representations of what you have actually accomplished.

                                          A blog is helpful for really senior positions where people take the time to research your writings. Spiceworks isn’t a tech community and I think having a project list there actively looks really bad.

                                          It is not a tech community only in your literal definition of the terms. Whether you like it or not, the colloquial definition of the word applies here and it is a tech community.

                                          Not a community “for techs”, but for people buying tech. It’s tech as in it’s about technology, not tech as in for people who do tech work.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Colloquial tech would equal “embarassing to use as a resume point”.

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