Creativity

50 Shades Of Resume #3: The Infographic

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Resume 3

Next up in 50 Shades of Resume is an infographic resume from Martin Suster.

Martin’s resume goes landscape instead of portrait, and he uses the extra space to take an infographic approach to his career. It actually includes a lot of standard resume elements – skills, job history, hobbies – but in a different format. He tops it off with a simple, limited color palette, which is useful as it keeps it from being garish.

The high points of resume are:

  • It actually mixes standard resume elements with the info graphic approach, and can mostly be viewed either way.
  • The listing of the skills is actually very effective as it combines both a measure of abilities and general classifications to make it easy to read.
  • The use of the icons adds a nice, subtle bit of personality to the resume. This is something people could use on a variety of resumes.
  • A limited color palette keeps this from being garish.
  • The landscape layout allows this to be an effective one-pager.
  • There’s a good sense of “quantifying” here and of self-awareness. Despite it being a resume that uses an info graphic, I feel it’s about a person.

The limits of this resume, and suggested alterations:

  • On the skills, I’d list them in the order of ability from most to least ability, so there’s more symmetry.
  • Not sure the job history works. It could probably be reconfigured to give it more space.
  • The education graph is clever, but could probably be a bit smoother, going for a simple timeline.
  • It’s not a resume that’ll necessarily scan well. It’s probably well paired with a more regular resume – it looks great online or as part of a set of resumes.
  • This would go well paired with a regular resume – it’s a good, powerful personal snapshot.

Steve’s Summary: If I got this resume it gives me a sense of a person with a good sense of design and a real sense of self-awareness. I’d want some more job history though, and possibly a regular resume.

[“50 Shades of Resume” is an analysis of various interesting resumes to celebrate the launch of the second edition of my book “Fan To Pro” and to give our readers inspiration for their own unique creations.]

– Steven Savage

50 Shades Of Resume #2: The Splash

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Resume 2

Our second resume is from Eduardo Lino of Brazil. I call it the “Splash.”

Eduardo’s resume is an interesting mixture of a standard resume design that’s easily readable, but has many layers to it – it literally looks like a series of papers and sticky notes atop a paint-splattered surface. He’s’ also got an eye-catching black, white, and yellow color scheme that really catches your attention.

The High Points of this splashy resume are:

  • It’s both colorful and readable. He manages a resume that stands out and still can be easily understood.
  • There’s a bit of whimsy to it with the paper-and-notes metaphor. It shows a sense of humor.
  • It’s information-dense – he does a lot with one page – but it doesn’t feel overcrowded.
  • It’s subtle. This resume avoids going over the top with it’s design, and thus I think communicates his graphical skills well.
  • The rating of his skills shows honesty – he’s willing to admit “I just have the basics” for some things.
  • Frankly, it’s a generally attractive resume. It feels like it’s meant to be read.

The limits of “The Splash” are:

  • This is a resume that may not work well on two pages, or he’d have to redesign it.
  • There’s not a lot of room for detail on what was done at his past employers.

Steve’s Summary: If this resume was handed to me, I’d appreciate the balance of readability and style. There’s a thoughtfulness here in design that speaks to me and makes me want to know more about the person.

[“50 Shades of Resume” is an analysis of various interesting resumes to celebrate the launch of the second edition of my book “Fan To Pro” and to give our readers inspiration for their own unique creations.]

– Steven Savage

Crossroads Alpha Recruiting!

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Hey gang, if you want to join up with the sites at Crossroads Alpha, here’s what we’re looking for!

Muse Hack
Muse Hack is the blog of Geek Applied – career-building, skill-learning, and community-creation. We’re looking for motivated, engaged authors that want to write on people putting their passions to use; career, education, conventions, fan charities, technology, and more. If you want to write on people getting things done, contact us.

We’re specifically looking for:

  • A person willing to put together a weekly roundup of relevant news.
  • Coverage of the convention beat, especially conventions with a heavy career and/or charity presence.
  • Coverage of training, skills, and development.

Contact Steve Savage

Psycho Drive-In
Psycho Drive-In strives to be the home for intelligent reviews and commentary on television and movies on the fringe of mainstream.

We are always on the lookout for great new writers and prefer distinct individual voices with something to say rather than someone just looking to recap the latest episode of whatever you happen to be watching.

We are looking for reviewers of weekly television programs that veer toward the horror/sci-fi genre, but also includes the best that TV has to offer, as well as people interested in reviewing films that are currently playing in theaters and/or new release home videos. Each writer should ideally maintain a presence on Facebook and/or Twitter – at least – to help spread the word when new items are updated on the site.

We are specifically looking for:
* A person willing to put together a weekly roundup of relevant news.
* Writers interested in launching quality ongoing columns analyzing or surveying specific film or TV works/genres/creators with an eye toward future publication as ebooks – either independently or under the PDI banner.

Contact Paul Brian McCoy

Seventh Sanctum
Seventh Sanctum, the site of random generators, is looking for creative people to share their advice and their secrets! The site supports a legion of random tools for ideas, and now hosts The Codex, an online section for advice for creative people. Be it writing, art, or role-playing games, we’re looking for you to share what you know to help out others.

We’re specifically looking for:

  • People who can write on art and visual creativity.
  • People who can provide serious, hard advice on writing such as editing, publishing, and more.
  • Someone willing to do a weekly roundup of news, interesting links, and of course crazy inspiring stuff.

Contact Steve Savage

Indie Haven
Indie Haven, the site for all the news you’d ever want about Indie Games, is looking for folks eager to delve into the world of games journalism. We have a solid reputation among Indie Developers and this is a close-knit group of writers and editors that will help you get better.

What we’re looking for:

  • Reliable reviewers that can turn around a game review in a short amount of time.
  • Journalists willing to put together feature stories for the website.
  • Livestreamers willing to play some games on our Twitch TV channel.

Contact Jose