RE: Interesting use of infographics for a resume

["Leonard C. Porrello" <Leonard -dot- Porrello -at- SoleraTec -dot- com>]

For me the rub is that the graphics are _unnecessarily_ complicated. To
the designer's credit, however, he is trying to solve an old problem in
a new way. This is attractive--unless the thing that impels him to
reinvent the wheel is pathological narcissism.

Leonard

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Subject: RE: Interesting use of infographics for a resume

At the risk of sounding like an HR manager at Old Stodgycon Inc., I have
to say I'd be turned off by this format. (I'm a tech writer at present,
but I have been a hiring manager many times in the past.) Or let me put
it differently ... if the graphic were provided as additional
information to supplement a textual, conventional employment history, I
might find it interesting (assuming that the applicant passed my initial
screening and I was really interested in him). But I wouldn't want to
figure out how to read the graphic in order to do the initial screening,
and if I had more than a handful of resumes to consider, I'd be inclined
to toss this one rather than invest the effort.

A big part of my problem has already been mentioned -- this guy is
asking me to decipher a lot of information I don't care about. Energy
expenditure? Personal time investment? Why do I care? If he simplified
the graphics to focus on things I care about as a prospective employer,
I'd like them better. The "daily intake and output" chart is obviously
humorous and is simple. I'm actually OK with that one -- I glance at it,
I grasp it, I get a chuckle, I move on. But the other two charts require
me to expend energy to mentally factor out the info I don't care about
in order to grasp the info I do care about, and I get the feeling it's
not worth the effort.
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