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Its just an anecdote from my personal experience, but perhaps it shows how little an resume influences the decision if you get a job or not: About 7 years ago

Its just an anecdote from my personal experience, but perhaps it shows how little an resume influences the decision if you get a job or not: About 7 years ago i was unemployed and a little depressed because every single application for a job i wrote got rejected... at one saturday night i returned from some good time with a few friends and perhaps a few beer (..and whisky, and whatever else) too much and had the "wise" idea to check a few job websites. I found an offer for a sysop job and wrote the (obviously) most drunken and horrible application ever... at monday morning i got a call, the next friday i signed the contract. Morale of the story: The boss got curious if i really was just an drunk idiot and invited me to see for himself. I still work at this company and i am reasonable happy here. But... perhaps this is something which will work only with smaller companies.

josephg 5y ago
A few years ago I was working as a video game programming teacher. My boss showed me a resume asking if I thought we should bring the guy in. His resume was a 8ish page affair in the Japanese style. I flipped through not that impressed, until in the middle of his resume somewhere he mentioned working on Japanese dating sim games with ridiculous names like “How to date a hot girl II”. I figured we needed to interview him after that, if only to hear that story. Anyway, we ended up hiring him. Really nice guy - and his students adored him. I’m not sure what the takeaway is. Maybe, just like a dating profile, don’t be afraid to be interesting in your resume. The point isn’t to get you hired. It’s to give whoever reads it reason enough to interview you.