Résumés are boring. On the employer front: I always hated looking at 1000x pieces of white paper that all look the same. It was mind numbing. On the employee

Résumés are boring. On the employer front: I always hated looking at 1000x pieces of white paper that all look the same. It was mind numbing. On the employee front: I always ensured I used very graphical resumes that stood out. They always got the attention of the hiring managers, and it was a great filter of either "You're boring so you threw my resume away" or "You're awesome and the kind of company I want to work for by having some fun with it".