Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ]

27/06/08 Employ Me Based On My Tag Cloud?

CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - Having seen the tag cloud Michael made from the prologue of Paul Carr’s book Bringing Nothing To The Party, I decided to run my CV through Wordle.net.

Nice. Would I employ someone based on their ‘Tag Cloud’? I would certainly run their CV through it to find the dominant keywords.

-Robin.

(Image: Screenshot from Wordle.net done with Skitch)

7 Comments

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28/06/08 steph

That tag cloud is a cool idea for making CV’s more interesting.

I hope to see ‘Heroes’ jumping off the page shortly!

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28/06/08 » Resume Tag Cloud ellybabes: Mad ramblings whenever I feel like it….

[...] had a brilliant idea to run his resume (CV) through a Tag Cloud generator, and perhaps to use this as a visual guide to the dominant [...]

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01/07/08 Prototype of a Person » Blog Archive » Visualise your CV with Wordle

[...] Blandford had this great idea to input his CV into Wordle to create a tag cloud - which is a visual representation of the most [...]

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02/07/08 People and Technology - CV as TagCloud

[...] Idea from Elly and Robin. [...]

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04/07/08 How To Create Your Own Word Clouds : PodCamp Ireland

[...] your expertise with Wordle and create a Wordle CV as Robin Blandford has [...]

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11/07/08 WillKnott.ie » Blog Archive » Work as a cloud

[...] Robin Blandord came up with the idea to run his CV through Wordle.net to see what it would look like as a tag cloud. It’s been repeated by Ellybabes, Sinéad Cochrane and Paul Browne. Sorry that it’s in simple black & white and not visually pleasing as the others; I thought about adding it to my physical CV or embed it in the files to see if there was a change in uptake. Given that most (if not all) recruitment agencies parse the résumés they recieve through something similar, it might make sense. Wordle is a Java application which parses text, ignores common words, and creates a tag cloud. The size of the word is proportional to the how often it occurs in the CV. [...]

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15/07/08 Grannymar » What’s a Wordle

[...] Robin Blandord came up with the idea to run his CV through Wordle.net to see what it would look like as a tag cloud. The idea snowballed [...]

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