I just tested out a website that ‘visualizes’ your CV. It’s an interesting concept and I like some of the ways it portrays information. In other ways, I am not sure it does my experience justice.
What I like is:
- Blocks of information
- Colour and icons
- Maps to display information such as languages
- Recommendations on the page
- Links to Twitter, LinkedIn and Blog
What I don’t like is:
- The columns for education and experience are the same size even though the length of information is not
- Education is at the top, equal to experience. I prefer it to go lower down, less profile.
- You can only see the top / most recent work experiences
- The map re languages takes up one third of the page however is not the most important information
- The design options/layout seem limited
After some fiddling around with themes and fonts, I found one a template that worked for me better:
The concept of visualizing one’s CV is great and while I am not 100% convinced with the beta software yet, what it has done is given me new ideas of how I might present information (more creatively) on my CV in the future. Thank you www.vizualize.me! And you can check out my ‘draft’ online CV here: http://vizualize.me/MichelleLaurie
