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Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps
- Judson 17y agoI would love to create a mashup of something like this with http://PleaseRobMe.com http://PleaseRobMe.com
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- avner 17y agoI wouldn't so much call it a resume/C.V. than an intuitive addition to one on a portfolio. Good idea nonetheless.
- RK 17y agoFrom the Chile push pin regarding interests: taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers Any UK people care to translate that?
- tankman 17y ago"taking the piss" = "making fun of"
- RK 17y agoI guess it could be worse if the phrase were "taking a piss on my wife"... I once had a friend from England ask me very skeptically if you could really say someone was just "fucking with you" to mean someone was just joking around. So I guess it goes both ways.
- robgough 17y agoI don't know why your friend didn't know that, but I would imagine most of us here in the UK would know what you meant by that. Not that I use it terribly often.
- markbnine 17y agoI would have embedded the map in another page, and designed around it. The Google cruft doesn't seem resume worthy.
- dirtbox 17y agoI don't know, I quite like the utilitarian feel to just leaving it vanilla.
- bokchoi 17y agoNo hire. Don't make me click around to read your resume.
- egutman 17y agoHe could have gone one step further and created a .kml file for a virtual tour in Google Earth. That would have been impressive.
- eru 17y agoWhy? The threshold to looking at it is higher than using the web only.
- techiferous 17y agoI read this as "begin using google maps again".
- angumagu 17y agoI think the title should read "Résumé using Google Maps". The current title is an imperative asking me to start using Google Maps again.
- jedc 17y agoOr even better, C.V., since that's what the OP used in his description. "Ed Hamilton - Copywriter This is my CV on Google Maps."
- peterwwillis 17y ago...? I click it and it brings me to some minimized search/home page. What is this?
- Periodic 17y agoI too am very confused. I even made sure to enable Javascript for the page.
- pgbovine 17y agoseems good if people in your occupation value geographical diversity in experiences (e.g., if you want to get a job as a travel photographer or international spy) ... not so useful if you're applying for software positions, though
- sumeetjain 17y agoAs a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful. I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé approach and impressing their potential employer. For the next iteration, non-truncated location descriptions would be needed.
- nfnaaron 17y ago"non-truncated location descriptions" Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text. Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.
- whughes 17y agoEmbedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That would make things clearer.
- matt_is 17y agoI made something similar a year ago, minus google maps: http://www.scribd.com/doc/9683205/Resume-with-horizontal-timeline-and-world-map http://www.scribd.com/doc/9683205/Resume-with-horizontal-tim...