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Re: OT: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea
Subject:Re: OT: Having fun with your resume - good idea/bad idea From:Mitchell Maltenfort <mmalten -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> Date:Tue, 4 Sep 2012 08:58:43 -0400
Somewhere in the resume I'd hide the line "Congratulations. If you
spotted this, you meet my standards for proofreading."
____________________________
Ersatzistician and Chutzpahthologist
I can answer any question. "I don't know" is an answer. "I don't know
yet" is a better answer.
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca> wrote:
> Yehoshua,
>
> No way! You're married to a recruiter? Definitely gives you the edge in the
> job market. ;-)
>
> This is a great piece. I love all the suggestions, and could probably make
> use of most of them. I've longed to do an interactive multimedia resume
> based off of XML topics, so the user could ask for what they want and get
> my resume custom tailored to them.
>
> The department head of the BC Institute of Technology tech writing program
> also runs the video program. Her grads walk out of the program with a high
> quality video resume that I may say even kicks on the Stintson. I wish I
> had the time to create a good video resume. Maybe one day.
>
> Cheers,
> -Tony
>
> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:33 AM, yehoshua paul <ysp10182 -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> Has anyone here ever been stressed out about their resume? Spent hours
>> reviewing and polishing the spelling, grammar, layout - and content? Just
>> wished they could relax and have some fun with it?
>> ...
>> This article is part of a contest. The winning article will be the one
>> which is most read, with additional prizes going to most Facebook likes,
>> most tweets, most +1s, and most e-mailed...During the next 5 day
>>
>
>
>> http://jobmob.co.il/blog/have-fun-with-your-resume/
>>
>
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