Status Chart: Your Professional Dashboard
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Poking around the about page I found a link to the founder's status chart (why isn't that link on the main page as a sample?) and at least I can see what it does, but it seems like it would only be useful for folks who attend a lot of meetups or do a lot of conferences.
As it turns out I'm one of those people, but I'm still not quite sure why I might want to use this.
Here is my profile on Status Chart: https://www.statuschart.com/kennedysgarage
Two weeks ago I was not happy with my traditional résumé and decided to take a closer look it. I noticed that my career path did not fit on the typical one page one often has. I decided the solution would be to keep my résumé a traditional résumé and create something to enhance it.
I created Status Chart to list out all of my projects, hackathons, events, and so on. I fell that these items are what really make me who I am, not necessary the "jobs" I have had, although important.
- The name is obnoxious. Highlighting the events you've been to is somewhat interesting, but implicitly claiming that paying to go to some conference gives you higher social status is lame.
- Too many items. If I were hiring someone would I really want to read through all that? Maybe, but not at first glance.
- Organizing items by the date they were started / completed isn't especially compelling to me. I don't really care how busy you are, I just want to see the most interesting things you've done period.
- It's not clear whether or not you can choose your own categories of what to add based on the front page, and presumably you can't since they each have their own unique icon. This is a problem, because what I would want to highlight about myself wouldn't fit especially well into these categories.
- I was not trying to imply that someone has a higher social status. Just that I personally have gained so much from conferences, in the terms of knowledge. I have also gained equal amounts of knowledge from just watching videos online for the once I could not make it to.
- I do agree that there is a lot of items. I have just implemented the original filtering system first as that seemed to work. We are working on other way to showcase the items you have, because we know not all profiles will be the same.
- I love this idea, maybe we users could mark items as highlights.
- Right now we are only have those categories. Something that I am trying to take care of first and deciding a better way of doing this.
Thanks so much for your feedback. I really appreciate it!
I would humbly suggest that at the very least you put an explicit link to your own status chart on the main page.
I realize that that image in the middle is clickable, but the fact that you can click on it is not readily discoverable (I only noticed when I went back to see if you added more copy yet :) ).
One note - you've got a typo on your invitation request confirmation page[1]. It says "We applicate your request..." instead of "appreciate."
1. It looks really good. But on second glance I just got confused. There is a lot of info, a graph I dont get and a list of seemingly unconnected events with no exposition.
2. It took a couple of plays to work it out - its really about the categories you have set up. Clicking the filter gives you a good sense of what the person has behind them Now I get it, I like it.
3. So that leads me to: If I am a non-speaking, non-hackathoning (Whats a hackathon) uncharitable, non conference goer - my statuschart will look pretty thin. Can I alter the categories to suit me? At worst just change the labels
4. I definitely want to expand the 'projects' section - I would want to do F/OSS, Salaried jobs, contract work, education etc.
5. pricing - I think it was on the PR piece you got - $5 a month and 30/year. That sounds good but why make people sign up before they can follow / read a page. If I wanted to give this to a propspective employer, I would be forcing them to sign in before seeing my CV - or have I missed something
6. Instead of category @all@, which is just a big long list of confusing, can I suggest top - where i can weight each event and then there is a simplish algorithm to float the events I weighted highest to top (perhaps weight / days since). That way there is a default page open that has my best stuff listed right at the top, and only then does someone have to filter out.
7. I am thinking of this as a CV - I would want to put a small paragraph onto some events to explain them, maybe in a popup.
Otherwise really good - there is a rash of github resumes and other 'show off my stuff' sites. Its going to be an interesting area - good luck iterating.
cheers
Edit: kicked off a bit strong, toned it down a littel
I will update the site in a bit with some copy, I forgot to add that :/