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I tried it with my resume, and the results surprised me. My observations: - They do some interesting communication chicanery where one host asks a question to
by michaelteter 2y ago
I tried it with my resume, and the results surprised me. My observations:
- They do some interesting communication chicanery where one host asks a question to me (the resume owner); I'm not there, so obviously I can't answer. But then immediately the co-host adds some commentary which sort of answers while also appearing to be a natural commentary. The result is that the listener forgets that Michael never answered the question which was directly asked to him. This felt like some voodoo to me.
- Some of the commentary was insightful and provided a pretty nice marketing summary of ideas I tried to convey in my terse (US style) resume.
- Some of the comments were so marketing-ey that I wanted to gag. But at the same time, I recognize that my setpoint on these issues is far toward the less-bs side, and that some-bs actually does appeal to a lot of people and that I could probably play the game a little stronger in that regard.
Overall I was quite impressed.
Then for fun I gave it a Dutch immigration letter, one which said little more than "yeah you can stay, and we'll coordinate the document exchange". They turned that into a 7 minute podcast. I only listened to the first 30 seconds, so I can only imagine how they filled the rest. The opener was funny though: "Have you ever thought of just chucking it all and moving to a distant land?" ... lol. Not so far off the mark, but still quite funny to come up with purely from an administrative document.
- amunozo 2y agoI tried it converting bureaucratic documents from Spain, even a paper sheet to just ask for holidays, and it created the funniest podcast I've ever heard. I'm glad I'm not the only one doing this stupid thing.