MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: You old fuddy-duddies!

> > I thought it was rad. See everything in a glance, it's laid out in a creative, yet
> > structured, manner. Easy to bounce around yet not lose track. Of course, it needs a
> > cover page to present yourself by.
>
> Such résumés never have everything you want/need to see. They rely on trying to
> impress HR drones with bright colours while avoiding any actual content. It also
> fails to demonstrate written communication skills. Coherency and conciseness of text
> in a résumé is a good indicator of how well someone can do with e-mail, JIRA tickets,
> etc. I'm not an old fuddy-duddy - in fact I could be younger than you. But I've seen
> thousands of résumés and interviewed hundreds of candidates. There are patterns you
> notice, and the people who provide those kinds of résumés are generally not the kind
> of people you want to hire. It’s more efficient to ditch them before the interview
> phase.

Kind of depends on the job you are gunning for. That resume format might fly for a graphic arts job, a layout guy, Gui Design...etc.

That said it appears he's a code monkey, and yes, he looks like a tool. His content didn't help him much either