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Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Use Your LinkedIn Data to Create a Stunning Visual Resume
lifehack.org: It’s a tough world out there. As economies dip and dive and job markets dwindle, competition for our dream job becomes all the more fierce and standing out from the crowd becomes more important than ever.
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I'm skeptical. While this may be a good tool, it seems like it's important to design your own resume and organize the information appropriately. I wouldn't trust anyone who instead of doing it themselves entered their LinkedIn information (I also am skeptical of LinkedIn) into a resume site. While Re.Vu may work just fine, I wouldn't want any website to do that work for me. This seems especially important for anyone in an artistic profession. Resumes are critical in reflecting a person and their work as well as personality. Everyone should be able, and I would hope, want to sculpt their resumes by hand. It is after that is done that I think it's appropriate to get help. But it seems pretty low to have a computer do that for you.
Oh, I wouldn't say that it's a bad thing to use a tool like that; if you're using LinkedIn and updating it, then this tool will take the same information and update automatically, which is really beneficial if you don't have the time to make graphical resumes yourself.
And that's really the point I take away from this - there are more interesting ways of looking at data than bullet points. Graphics give a scale representation of time and of concurrent projects, and the various charts are a much more informative way of tracking skills.
Yes, handy to keep a typical one page résumé for when applicable, but it's likely that in this industry a lot of jobs will be gotten through introductions, and a potential employer's likely move thereafter is to google. If they're looking at you on a computer, why not optimize content for a computer?
So I have registered for re.vu and will play with it.
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