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CV as TagCloud

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Idea from Elly and Robin.

From Wordle (a beautiful Java Applet)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 am and is filed under CV, jobs. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “CV as TagCloud”

  1. Gavin Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    Hmm, I wonder what a potential employer would make if I sent that in! :-)

  2. Paul Browne Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm

    Gavin

    I’ve two answers to that one:

    1) The tag cloud is pretty close to what happens in your head when you read a person’s CV - scanning for keywords, and picking out the one’s of interest. So far so good.

    2) Until you realise that most employers run a mile from any non-traditional CV (with one partial exception). When you look at 20+ resumes to fill a post (at less than 1 minute each), anything that’s ‘too much effort’ to read gets binned. So people stick with the standard CV layout, even if it’s not great.

    The ‘Partial’ exception to this strict-cv-format rule is LinkedIn which is now an accepted (i.e. Mainstream) way for business to find good people.

    Paul

  3. WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Work as a cloud Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    [...] what it would look like as a tag cloud. It’s been repeated by Ellybabes, Sinéad Cochrane and Paul Browne. Sorry that it’s in simple black & white and not visually pleasing as the others; I [...]

  4. Grannymar » What’s a Wordle Says:
    July 15th, 2008 at 7:12 am

    [...] like as a tag cloud. The idea snowballed and was taken up by Ellybabes, Sinéad Cochrane, Will and Paul Browne. They were all very [...]

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