Resume Critique Deux
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- stewdio0
@Hombre_Lobo I agree with what you're saying. But the community did back him into a corner pretty quickly. I'd feel defensive too. All in all I thought it was a decent reply on his part.
- jaylarson0
• despite ikea, verdana is a screen font an doesn't look good printed/in a pdf.
•put contact info with your name, not as a "category" with the body.
• open up the format a bit. you have space, use it.
• tag cloud isn't working. clean it up.
HR doesn't care if you're crafty. they want to see the information they want to know, they don't want to search for it. and you usually have to go through hr to make it to the desk of whomever you wish to work with.
- d_rek0
I've posted mine - FYI, it's meant to be 5.5x8.5" or 1/2 of an 8.5x11" sheet for economy purposes (hey, i'm fuggin poor).
The dotted line doesn't actually get printed (or the little caption).
- haha i like that idea of cutting it in half. nicehellojeehae
- rflctdsilence0
I just thought about something you are probably thinking I creating this thing in Word or something -- its all HTML and then I convert to PDF. http://tinyurl.com/y2lzzns
- it looks better in html i think. but columns should be spaced out a bit.hellojeehae
- boobs0
*holds tongue.
- brains0
It's a start? No, actually, start again.
- stewdio0
It's not beautiful, but it should get your ship to shore.
http://stewdio.org/qbn/quincyI decided to go for HTML as well. I put a time-limit on this little charette, so what you get is what you get. I'm looking at it in Safari for Mac and seems like it will print correctly (or close-enough) on an 8.5" x 11" sheet. And here's your original link again for comparison :
http://stylesandcode.com/resume-…I think the main idea is that less = more. And also spell-check.
- bravo - well done. I think some THANKS are in order...d_rek
- also... I went and did it :)
http://www.qbn.com/t…d_rek
- stewdio0
I just hope Quincy sees it.
- rflctdsilence0
You guys love small text and light grey. I think you have an idea in your head on how something should look and everything else is wrong. When printed -- http://tinyurl.com/ybznd67. Did I spell something wrong?
- what stewdio did is neither small text nor light graymonospaced
- Thanks I did find some spelling errors. Much appreciated. That's what I really wanted.rflctdsilence
- R U Sure?rflctdsilence
- fucking guaranteed...are you clicking the same link? It's black type.monospaced
- lukus_W0
Keep it simple - you don't want to fall at the first hurdle.
If your resume is 'quirky' it stands more chance of being filing in the trash if it gets read by someone having an off-day.
- inteliboy0
rflctdsilence = tosser
- rflctdsilence0
This is what a simple resume looks like -- http://tinyurl.com/y9rh96a
- No it isn't - there's a standard format .. you're deviating from it in both cases.lukus_W
- welded0
Knock it off with the TinyURLs.
- rflctdsilence0
Here's how the resume looks in preview -- http://tinyurl.com/y2s45kj
- http://www.stylesand…lukus_W
- Hmm... every time I add a long url it truncates and messes up.rflctdsilence
- SERIOUSLY WTF! Can't you just fix the damn font sizes so it's not so horsey? We've been saying this for weeks.monospaced
- Continuity0
What on Earth are you trying to accomplish with tag clouds on a print document? Do you want people to touch a tag with their finger on the your paper CV, and have something happen?
- Ah know but where do you see tag clouds -- on websites and what version of websites -- 2.0. And I created the resume in html and then exported into PDF duh.rflctdsilence
- rflctdsilence0
Ah know but where do you see tag clouds -- on websites and what version of websites -- 2.0. And I created the resume in html and then exported into PDF duh.
- Continuity0
This is getting circular.