Could infographics aid your job search?
We all know it: Polish that resume all you want, but it's gonna be "read" for 10 seconds, tops. So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead.
Via Patrick Dubois comes two examples. The first, above, is a graphic timeline with a couple of charts. A stickler for infographics would point out that the heights of the charts don't really correspond to any data--surely there's a way to fudge that with an axis, and make them into real graphs (this also illustrates the pitfalls of graphing your resume for a bunch of design geeks--the design better be tight). But nonetheless, it all works well enough.
The second example is somewhat more straightforward and utilitarian--it's basically a subway stop map, of the sort that has been used to graph everything from the best movies of all-time to the year's hottest Webtrends.
We all know it: Polish that resume all you want, but it's gonna be "read" for 10 seconds, tops. So it makes a lot of sense to ditch the resume altogether, and create a chart instead.
Via Patrick Dubois comes two examples. The first, above, is a graphic timeline with a couple of charts. A stickler for infographics would point out that the heights of the charts don't really correspond to any data--surely there's a way to fudge that with an axis, and make them into real graphs (this also illustrates the pitfalls of graphing your resume for a bunch of design geeks--the design better be tight). But nonetheless, it all works well enough.
The second example is somewhat more straightforward and utilitarian--it's basically a subway stop map, of the sort that has been used to graph everything from the best movies of all-time to the year's hottest Webtrends.
- 12/15/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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