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Comment by personjerry | Hacker News Reader

Could this be used like a resume?

I wouldn't recommend it. It's too long and too unstructured for that purpose. Also it's inverted such that the most important parts are at the very end. If the CV is so long that it probably won't be read completely by everyone involved in a hiring process, you at least want the most relevant parts in the beginning.

It also doesn't quite work as a story, since it's mostly just a list of events. Even biographies need a narrative arc and some kind of a hook. So it's perhaps best to just take the README at face value on why this was written: "I want to learn more about how people learn what they learn and examine the sometimes serendipitous or roundabout ways that people come by their skills."

While I second this recommendation I would also think that it doesn't make much sense that most HR people would prefer a "classic" resume over such a piece.

It tells you a lot more about a person WHY and HOW he/she started several different things then the fact THAT those things were done.

Try to imagine how this text would read in a resume like style: strip out all the anecdotal things about how and why and just leave the "facts". To a HR person this would read like "Oh my gosh, this person isn't knowing what to start next." But with all the anecdotal parts it reads more like "Oh a person which knows how to train different skill by theirself."

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