My attempt at a visual resume
I’m not designer, nor do I aspire to become one. However, I find myself drawn to alternative ways to communicate value, and I thought what better way than to start with myself.
My visual cv is by no means an exercise in trading “eye candy” for tangible examples of experience and knowledge gained. I’ve been following several discussions on the value of a visual resume, so I thought I’d give it a whirl.
These comments from a recent blog post spurred me to action:
Bob Feldtman — November 10, 2011 at 4:18 pm
85% [of people] are visually oriented, thus this is great!. but what percentage of HR guys are visual? that is the question.
Mike Harding — November 10, 2011 at 4:26 pm
Bob Feldtman: That IS THE question. We did a survey of HR Professionals inclusive of recruiters, business partners, and hiring managers as we built our product. 2% had a negative visceral reaction to the visual format, 86% said that they would accept the format BUT that they also would want a “standard resume” for support. A big concern was that their systems for accepting candidates were all text/document based and that this format would break their systems and processes.
Hiring managers were the interesting parties in the responses. Overwhelmingly, 91% said they preferred the visual, multi-dimensional approach to what they normally saw.
Take this for what it’s worth and of course your mileage may vary.
