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Visualize Your Resume As Art!
By Miriam Salpeter
Keppie Careers - A Head Above the Rest
www.keppiecareers.wordpress.com
Well-informed job seekers know that companies typically screen resumes using software that searches for key words. That’s why your resume should be targeted/personalized for each job. Re-writing even a little of your resume can help scanning software mark your resume as one to review further!
College Recruiter suggested a link to a fun tool called Wordle. It describes itself as:
“A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”
In other words, Wordle will create a visual representation of your resume, highlighting words that it senses as more important or prominent and downplaying the ones that don’t have much impact. If you are trying to highlight yourself as a highly technical team player and your visual representation doesn’t highlight those topics, you may want to consider re-working things! In any case, this looks like a fun tool to put some spice in your job search. Just think - you can make art out of your resume!
Keppie Careers - we do more than make art of your resume…We’ll write it to ideal specifications so you will get noticed! www.keppiecareers.com
Keppie Careers - A Head Above the Rest
www.keppiecareers.wordpress.com
Well-informed job seekers know that companies typically screen resumes using software that searches for key words. That’s why your resume should be targeted/personalized for each job. Re-writing even a little of your resume can help scanning software mark your resume as one to review further!
College Recruiter suggested a link to a fun tool called Wordle. It describes itself as:
“A toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.”
In other words, Wordle will create a visual representation of your resume, highlighting words that it senses as more important or prominent and downplaying the ones that don’t have much impact. If you are trying to highlight yourself as a highly technical team player and your visual representation doesn’t highlight those topics, you may want to consider re-working things! In any case, this looks like a fun tool to put some spice in your job search. Just think - you can make art out of your resume!
Keppie Careers - we do more than make art of your resume…We’ll write it to ideal specifications so you will get noticed! www.keppiecareers.com
9 Comments
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Comment by Miriam Salpeter on June 27, 2008 at 11:04am - Lucilla - That's great! I'm glad it came out exactly the way you hoped. It is a fun tool! Thanks for reading and commenting.
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Comment by Miriam Salpeter on June 27, 2008 at 6:30pm
- That's great! I'm so glad to know that it's a good resource for you! Plus, you can then offer a framed version of the resume :-)
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Comment by Lucilla Feliciano on June 27, 2008 at 7:29pm - Great Idea!
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Comment by Darlene McDaniel on June 28, 2008 at 9:19pm
- Hey Miriam, It took me a few minutes to figure how a job seeker can use this - Visualize your resume as art. I get it now! Thanks for the suggestion.
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Comment by Miriam Salpeter on June 29, 2008 at 12:51am
- Thanks...It's a fun tool to lighten up the job hunt and can be useful to see how the key words are coming through. Hope to speak to you soon!
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Comment by Lucilla Feliciano on June 29, 2008 at 10:25am
- Same here!
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Comment by Lucilla Feliciano on July 1, 2008 at 3:26pm
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You know Miriam,
I found another place where they mentioned Wordle. It was a posting on Stephen Bakers, Blogspotting with Business Week on line. Here is the link: http://tinyurl.com/5h6r23
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Comment by Miriam Salpeter on July 1, 2008 at 4:28pm
- That was where College Recruiter found the info originally! Thanks for the info!
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Good Post Miriam!