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Assuming that employers are going to stumble upon the HTML version of your resume, I would cut out this line from the top:

> Hates design & frontend.

There's only so much above-the-fold space on a webpage (especially on mobile) and it's not worth devoting such valuable real-estate telling people how much you hate anything, nevermind two important skillsets.

Also, your design sense seems to be fine, and you obviously care enough about front-end code on your webpage to have decent typography and legibility and not just use Bootstrap right of the box.

edit: "above-the-fold" meaning top-of-the-page. Sorry, read too many newspapers in my day

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Probably an even bigger problem is that this resume is now going to come up every time a recruiter searches for "design & frontend".

(This might not be a problem in France. Here in the San Francisco area in the U.S. it seems common for recruiters to blindly contact the first 200 developers whose resumes contain relevant keywords.)

Incidentally, they blind keyword use is easily (ab)used to get past their initial filtering, by working in honest mentions of things you don't have experience with but which will fit relevant keywords. "I don't have much experience with X, but have worked extensively with Y and Z"

Need to be careful about overdoing it, of course.

"Here is a list of all computer skills, with a check mark next to the ones I have:"

call it a todo-list

write it an mvc todo page / server for each

Thanks a lot for the advice. I'll take a look at the fold space you mention ;)

Another problem is that Google is still caching the "hates design" from his Twitter feed: https://www.google.com/#q=mathieu+passenaud

I would hire someone who hates design and frontend anytime. Then again, I have no money, no company, and never hired anyone in my life.

I would hire someone like that too for the right job, and I've hired lots of people. But I wouldn't be hiring people because of it. To me the problem isn't mentioning it, but wasting space above the fold on it.

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