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An Amaz-ing Resume
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- GotAnyMegadeth 14y ago"16% of reviews have 1 stars" ...
- retube 14y agoyeah right. what's that all about?
- belorn 14y agoHonesty? One who can not admit mistakes are unlikely to become a good co-worker. I might have lowered the % to say 9 instead of 16, but the general idea is sound.
- joelrunyon 14y agoIf you click the "1 star" link, it jumps back to the top of the page (the photo of the guy). I'm not sure if it's supposed to be insinuating that he's "one star" available, but I thought it was mildly clever.
- jqueryin 14y agoI believe it's just the fact he has no e.preventDefault() or onclick="return false;" for the old school guys on the link action. In thish case, the browser is simply looking for a named anchor that doesn't exist, so it jumps to top.
- koide 14y agoYou know, those two are not incompatible. He might have left out the preventDefault() call on purpose.
- phildub 14y agoWell, yeah, it's directly from the original product page I worked from. I didn't have a fun idea for that part, so I left it as-is with a blank link. If you have a good idea, I would totally do it :) Thanks! Philippe
- maxerickson 14y agoAbsurdist parody of unreasonable expectations? "Was unable to leap tall building." "A decent doll would at least be poseable." "Demanded food immediately after arrival."
- alanbyrne 14y agoI would link that a "review" to your answer to the common interview question: "What are your weaknesses" "Phil Dub often works too hard and put in too many late night unbillable hours on projects as he is a perfectionist"
- japhyr 14y agoI thought the rating distribution was brilliant. I want to work with people who make most people happy, but also piss a few people off. Those are the people willing to make difficult, unpopular, but important decisions when needed.
- wldlyinaccurate 14y agoIt's certainly an original and clever idea, but I don't think it makes the resume any more effective. In fact, I think being designed like an Amazon product page makes the resume less effective simply because most people have trained themselves to ignore much of what is displayed on an Amazon product page.
- jzwinck 14y agoIf a resume like this showed up on my desk, I'd show it to everyone nearby. It's unusual and carefully done, to the point that even if you don't like online shopping there's still this moment of wonder: Wow, what's going on with this guy? Most resumes are a chore to read, reminiscent of those pamphlets your bank sends to notify you of changes to their policies.
- JosephRedfern 14y agoSeriously, you'd rather go shopping? Ouch.
- JosephRedfern 14y ago(I was referring to the Alert box you get when using the search dropdown....)
- viraptor 14y agoAs much as I like the new idea, I find it really hard to read. It's not that this page itself is bad - I have problems to find reasonable information on a typical Amazon page and his resume just reflects the same: lots of referals to other products and lots of noise. The typography is also very poor / hard to read unfortunately. So - great idea... but I don't think it's going to be a success apart from creating a lot of social noise at the beginning.
- joelrunyon 14y ago> but I don't think it's going to be a success apart from creating a lot of social noise at the beginning. Isn't the biggest problem with resumes getting them noticed and making them stand out? If so, he's probably going to get way more eyeballs on this than your standard cv.
- belorn 14y agoAs a custom made resume when seeking work related to online stores, this would likely be a very successful method to stand out. Compared to all the generic resumes, a tailor made one tend to stand out as to say "I really want this job, and I understand what your company is about".
- pekk 14y agoThis idea has limits. Dumping glitter on your resume printed on pink paper and doing it in Comic Sans makes it stand out, but it is also obnoxious and gets in the way.
- joelrunyon 14y agoI think the site is a little more creative than glitter, pink paper & comic sans.
- pekk 14y agoDid I say otherwise? I am rather addressing your claim that the game is to stand out.
- ghc 14y agoHey, wait a minute! Where's the "Customers who viewed this also viewed" section? I want to know what my options are.
- phildub 14y agounder progress ;-)
- ghc 14y agoI'd suggest making them links to LinkedIn profiles of your friends. You know, the ones whose resumés make you look good by comparison ;). Even if you don't get hired, maybe you'll do one of them a favor.
- phildub 14y agoNeat idea, thanks
- kahawe 14y agoI keep clicking on "1 star" reviews but it doesn't show me anything!!! ;-)
- jtheory 14y agoPersonally, I think he should add some one-star reviews -- nothing so serious as an ex-girlfriend please, but something perhaps from a drive-by troll, or someone who's clearly mixing him up with a completely different product, or someone who took a dislike because of something completely innocuous. Also, see: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/one-star-amazon-reviews-make-me-feel-better.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2012/09/one-sta...
- danthewireman 14y agoOther people to show: Einstein, da Vinci, Hawking, Isaac Newton, and Cookie Monster.
- eksith 14y agoI don't trust products that don't show the negative reviews :/
- kentwistle 14y agoThe 5 out of 5 stars (233) link sends you to Amazon "Mr. Coffee ECMP50" page. This is very confusing. I think the idea is novel.
- phildub 14y agoFixed, thanks. This coffee machine is the product page I worked from ;-)
- davedx 14y agoLong trail -> long tail, I think?
- zacharyvoase 14y agoOne concern is this, in the footer: > This website was made in Jan 2013 by Philippe Dubost for the sole purpose of a playful and creative job search. No copyright infrigement intended. "No copyright infringement intended" is not a thing. Also, right below that it then says: > © 2013, Philippe Dubost Seems a bit strange to me.
- ht_th 14y agoA better statement would be that it is intended as satire, to comment on current state of our society and so on.
- zacharyvoase 14y agoI don't think it is satire; I think it's just a cool idea for a résumé. EDIT: Oh, I see what you're saying. Call it satire and it's ‘fair use’
- phildub 14y agoYou're right, I'll edit this part, thanks
- beaumartinez 14y ago"No copyright infringement intended". Isn't the act of copying Amazon's style intended copyright infringment?
- anonymouz 14y agoSeems to be so. I've only seen similar disclaimers on (copied) Youtube music videos before. This might be the copyright version of "I am not a [racist|homophobe|...], but ...".
- jiggy2011 14y agoThose youtube disclaimers always make me laugh. "I don't own the copyright to this", so why are you posting it then?
- jeffmess 14y agoWhere is the painful Amazon checkout process?
- TeMPOraL 14y agoWhat is painful Amazon checkout process? Did you mean painless one-click buy that makes me spend more money on Kindle books than I would want to?
- alanbyrne 14y agoYeh, if "Buy now with one click" had a breathalizer component I'd be a lot richer right now. But then again, I wouldn't have a USB Nerf cannon...
- slohr 14y agoThis comment made my morning. Thank goodness no one was around 'cause I snorted/laughed and nearly spewed coffee onto my keyboard...I guess you had to be there.
- jeffmess 14y agoYou mean the process where I'm logged in, add some items to my cart and when I click checkout get asked to login again, get to the 3rd screen and I'm told they don't ship to my country? Yeah, painless.
- ricardobeat 14y agoYou can now filter for international shipping on search results.
- anonymouz 14y agoThat doesn't cover everything though. For example, last I tried Amazon did not ship any storage media to Austria, even if it says "international shipping". But they only give indication of this at the end of the ordering process.
- epsylon 14y agoLucky you, you met Jamy Gourmaud ! My passion for science is largely due to C'est pas sorcier...
- tudorizer 14y agoHe got me. I had to double-check the URL
- quarterto 14y agoMy first thought was he'd managed to somehow list himself on Amazon. Now that would be impressive.
- davidradcliffe 14y agoVery clever. Had to check the URL after I arrived to see what was going on. Doesn't have to be the most readable format since he has the same information in other places.
- efdee 14y ago37 people only gave you one star? Why? ;-)
- TomGullen 14y agoI love it, but there's a good chance Amazon will be contacting you to take this down at some point.
- ssha 14y ago"SEO > Most resent best practices"? Is that new?
- antoniuschan99 14y agooh this is cool!
- carlob 14y agoNeat! However, here is some (hopefully helpful) criticism: The stars bar chart bothers me because of its inconsistency, first it says 5 previous positions, and then you have 233 reviews, but the average is not quite 5/5. You need to proofread this better. I have found a 'resent' in place of 'recent' and in the same section I'm not sure that 'Main Skills Rank' is the right title. Other than that, very very nice idea and good luck!
- anujmehta 14y agoimpressive!!
- so898 14y agoI do not think HR will like this resume... However, if bosses find this, they will be absolutely interesting in this resume. Whatever, good luck mate.
- pknerd 14y agoCan't AMazon grab his neck?
- alexakarpov 14y agoI'd rather grab him, really. Just sent a link to my Amazon HR contacts.
- pknerd 14y agoHR or legal? :)
- alexakarpov 14y agoHR =) he generated quite some interest among our Seattle folks, so most likely they already knew about him
- dragos2 14y agoThe only thing I get from this resume is that Philippe Dubost (the author) is selling himself like a product. Why would you want that?
- jonemo 14y agoFor a second I thought someone had posted their resume as an eBook on Amazon.com and then used the product description options Amazon gives "publishers" very creatively. Since it turns out that this is not what this is, I might do it, post a link on Hackernews, get lots of eyeballs that way, and subsequently receive a super-awesome job offer. Assuming the latter is also phildub's intention: Good luck!
- varunkho 14y agodoes somebody have a coupon to avail the discount. I'd need 99.9 percent discount :-).
- rschmitty 14y agoTaxes kill the deal
- ozirus 14y agoI choose simplicity, thank you.
- mxuribe 14y agoThis is such a clever resume! Great job! Cheers phildub!!
- sonabinu 14y agoGreat work ! Enjoy the fresh approach.
- gluemonkey 14y agoIndeed Amaz-ing work here Philippe; I'm impressed. I don't understand all of this copyright negativity. Perhaps I'm just naive in these matters, but so what if Amazon shoots you a cease and desist - BONUS! How great would that be for a follow-up blog post?
- simba-hiiipower 14y agopretty cool. took me a second of trying to click around, and a look at the url, to realize it was fake. somewhat disapointed; was much more impressed when i thought it was an actual amazon product listing..
- dcuthbertson 14y agoThis is really fun. I'm smiling and it made my morning. Well done! :)
- jblock 14y agoIt can't be cool to be hotlinking these resources straight from Amazon.
- scrumper 14y agoExcellent piece of whimsy. Good luck with it. I particularly enjoyed the rather brutal alert box when I clicked on "Add to wedding registry" :)
- mathattack 14y agoI have to say, this shows a lot of skills in web development. It's creative, even if the look and feel were borrowed from Amazon. This shows someone who can make something that "Looks like this..." If only I was hiring...
- victorhn 14y agoYou can copy the source code of any amazon product page, it doesn't necesarily shows "a lot of skills in web development". (I am not saying he doesn't have the skills though).
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- jameswburke 14y agoYeah, agreeing with victorhn. Any frontend developer worth half their weight in chocolate can replicate an amazon page in a about 3 hours (making all the adjustments he has). I'm all for creative new approaches to resumes (I did it myself to find in internship while in school), but this is lackluster at best.
- mattdennewitz 14y agothis is great, but the arrow points from "p" to "u". that stinks.
- shaaaaawn 14y agoAmazon should hire this guy
- jmspring 14y agoSo, Phil uses Amazon's design as a spoof for a resume. Aside from the is it copyright or not discussion, I am curios how this differs greatly from people leveraging the svbtle theme? Every time someone does that, multiple people pop their heads up and talk about blatant ripoff (even when credit is given). Sure, we have Amazon as e-commerce and this is a resume, where the other case are both essentially blogs. But, you have two cases of people using the design of someone (or something) else for their own purposes. And, the argument that "people using the svbtle theme are trying to leverage the popularity of svbtle.com to gain legitimacy" is likely the minority. Most people like it for it's cleanliness/simplicity.
- notahacker 14y agoCopying a popular blog theme for your blog is obvious, and lacks creativity. Spoofing an actually-not-that-aesthetically-pleasing design intended for a completely different purpose, and filling it with quirky details is rather different. It's the same reason why Android handset manufacturers got accused of "ripping off" the iconic design of the iPhone, whereas in an earlier era people thought Salvador Dali was being artistic when having the considerably more original idea of designing a telephone handset to look like a lobster.
- mnicole 14y agoSvbtle's design is based off of a standard, free Tumblr theme called Clarus. If you really wanted to edit that to have a white background and black text it'd take a few minutes tops, even for someone that wasn't familiar with CSS. I am definitely in the camp that if you're using the WP-Svbtle theme, you know what you're doing.
- esharef 14y agoHmm, as a recruiter who looks at hundreds of resumes a day, this kind of non-standard resume really annoys me. Just tell me who you are and what you do. Do so clearly and succinctly.
- notahacker 14y agoI get the feeling this sort of resume is aimed at companies that don't look at hundreds of resumes a day. Recruitment filters work both ways
- khangtoh 14y agoWonder if amazon prime works here.
- khangtoh 14y agoWonder if amazon prime works with here.
- khangtoh 14y agoWonder if amazon prime works with here.
- khangtoh 14y agoWonder if amazon prime works with here.
- justplay 14y agofirst i though it was Amazon website , after clicking i saw url which is different . Really seeing 294+ upvotes in hackernews i can phished .
- suyash 14y ago@phildub You should take it down, before Amazon sue your ass! IMO Unoriginal but creative
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- hartator 14y agoI don't like that. I don't want to be the asshole, but here it is : 1- No direct mention to Amazon, Really man? Not even a thanks? Not event saying if you are a fan boy (I am!)? 2- Spelling isn't a big deal, but in a resume, seriously? 3- Not humble at all, ie "...and maybe some creativity, who knows... ;-)" I don't want to hire or to work with someone who likes the smell of his own farts. 4- Finally, an Add on your resume... And no amazon doesn't put adsense on their pages... If you want to make some money that's okay, but just say it! Why lying? ... Epic Fail.