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I've downloaded this guy's resume (http://googlepleasehire.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Resume-of-Matthew-Epstein-Product-Marketer-Digital-Strategist.pdf http:
by rednum 15y ago
I've downloaded this guy's resume (http://googlepleasehire.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Resume-of-Matthew-Epstein-Product-Marketer-Digital-Strategist.pdf http://googlepleasehire.me/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Resume...) and while I'm aware he's doing something that I don't know much about, I am puzzled by the 'technology' thing in his skills chart. Can someone give me a hint what does he mean by giving himself 6 skill points in it? Same question for 'research & analytics' and 'social media' - these terms are so vague that their meaning is close to none for me.
- nielsandersen 15y agoAlso the scale of that grid seems a bit off. Or maybe the guy just really is good at everything.
- Udo 15y agoGenerally, I do like skill charts that look like RPG character sheets (so much so, I've been using this paradigm for my own skill profile http://udos.name http://udos.name), however as you said this particular one seems indeed a bit devoid of actual information. Even if the categories were meaningful, what's the point in having a scale of 1 to 7 when the lowest outlier rating you give yourself is 4?
- Shenglong 15y agoYour character sheet is awesome.
- Udo 15y agoThanks :-) I had fun making it! I would have made it even nerdier but I'm not sure how well that would go over for most freelancing clients...
- ca136 15y agoThat is pretty awesome, even if you can't trust it 100% I get a good idea of what you're relatively good at. Linkedin should do something like this.
- Udo 15y agoTrue. Of course even if you could trust it, it's a gross simplification. In reality, those dots mean different things in different contexts. But I still liked the idea of conveying some measure of experience related to a given subject instead of just listing buzzwords indiscriminately.
- mrgreenfur 15y agoYours has a legend! that is awesome.
- JoshWillis 15y agoI just signed up for an account just so I could post how awesome that skill profile is. Some site really needs to copy this idea.
- Udo 15y agoWow, thank you so much, it's really nice to hear that. And welcome to HN! :-)
- sarcasmatron 15y agoAfter reading this post, I decided it was a good time for an inaugural post. Here it is. How am I doing? Your skill profile incorporates two of my favorite things: P&P RPGs and employment.
- jgmmo 15y agoCharacter sheet is pure awesomeness. I realized how subjective the interview process when my last interview --- yesturday --- was entirely composed of: "From 1-10, 10 being the creator of the language, how are you with X? How about y? And Z?" This kind of online resume gets past all that kind of stuff. I see real value in being able to cleanly present this kind of high-level skillset info to employers PRE-interview.
- jturly 15y agoCheck out http://www.vizualize.me http://www.vizualize.me which is working on this