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Résumé (C.V.) using Google Maps

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60 pointsjakarta23 comments

I think the title should read "Résumé using Google Maps". The current title is an imperative asking me to start using Google Maps again.

Or even better, C.V., since that's what the OP used in his description.

"Ed Hamilton - Copywriter This is my CV on Google Maps."

From the Chile push pin regarding interests:

taking the piss out of my wife and newspapers

Any UK people care to translate that?

"taking the piss" = "making fun of"

I guess it could be worse if the phrase were "taking a piss on my wife"...

I once had a friend from England ask me very skeptically if you could really say someone was just "fucking with you" to mean someone was just joking around. So I guess it goes both ways.

I don't know why your friend didn't know that, but I would imagine most of us here in the UK would know what you meant by that. Not that I use it terribly often.

seems good if people in your occupation value geographical diversity in experiences (e.g., if you want to get a job as a travel photographer or international spy) ... not so useful if you're applying for software positions, though

As a proof of concept, this is interesting. For fields in which having experience in different cultures is important, the visual of the world map is really useful.

I could imagine someone applying for a teaching position using this résumé approach and impressing their potential employer.

For the next iteration, non-truncated location descriptions would be needed.

"non-truncated location descriptions"

Click on each, and you go to that flag on the map, with a text box containing the full text.

Not ideal, but I think that's a google thing.

Embedding Google Maps in one's own site would probably be a better solution. It also helps if you have a bunch of reference points concentrated in the UK or in some other small region (you could have one world map and one UK map). That would make things clearer.

I read this as "begin using google maps again".

I made something similar a year ago, minus google maps:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/9683205/Resume-with-horizontal-tim...

I would love to create a mashup of something like this with http://PleaseRobMe.com

He could have gone one step further and created a .kml file for a virtual tour in Google Earth. That would have been impressive.

Why? The threshold to looking at it is higher than using the web only.

I would have embedded the map in another page, and designed around it. The Google cruft doesn't seem resume worthy.

I don't know, I quite like the utilitarian feel to just leaving it vanilla.

I wouldn't so much call it a resume/C.V. than an intuitive addition to one on a portfolio. Good idea nonetheless.

...? I click it and it brings me to some minimized search/home page. What is this?

I too am very confused. I even made sure to enable Javascript for the page.

No hire. Don't make me click around to read your resume.

You maybe a really boring employer,then. You should appreciate the creativity. :D

When the resumes flood in after a job posting those that are not easily readable are tossed without a second thought.

Yep, I'm boring.

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