Some Remarkable Résumé Designs

Almost any of those resumes would get you a job offer from us (Shopify) after the most basic cultural fit evaluation.

Putting something like this together demonstrates a tremendous amount of desirable skills: Design skills, creativity, humour, but most importantly: resourcefulness, the desire to combat status quo, and the ability to ship a project and be proud enough to (literally in this case) put your name all over it.

Here is a great example of an applicant who build an entire Shopify store to get hired recently. Turned out we had the position already filled but we created a new position out of thin air just to get him. He starts on wednesday: http://mikefreeman.myshopify.com/

Nice designs, but terrible at conveying information.

(I found the one with the box particularly funny.)

If we're going to have these Resume submissions, I wish someone would post some really good ones, not this style-over-substance bullshit. Suppose you're an engineer and you're actually really good at what you're doing, what are some good examples that communicate that?

This is the (never sent) resume that I prepared when I was considering to apply for Posterous http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1720553/Screenshots/3n.png

Edit: never finished and never sent

I may be getting old but if something like this came to my desk for any job besides graphical artists, I would be mildly annoyed.

Most of them seem over-designed.