People and Technology

July 2, 2008

Filed under: CV, jobs — Paul Browne @ 12:13 am

Idea from Elly and Robin.

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

Comment by Gavin — July 2, 2008 @ 11:04 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

Comment by Paul Browne — July 2, 2008 @ 11:21 pm
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