I was wondering how, the next time I need my resumé, I could convey to the reader that, as a hacker, I’ve been playing with a lot of tools and toys, but I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a pro of some of them (on that note, I cringe whenever I see people put “MS Word” in their using-spaces-as-indentation MS Word resumés). Just now I had the aha moment, a tag cloud! Things I know more will have bigger font size than things I’ve only played with a little.
A Google search shows that it’s not an original idea. Also, some people include every aspect of their resumés (not just their tech skills) into the cloud, I wonder if that’s too much clutter, I just want to show a prospective employer (or HR-person*) what I know and how much of it in a quick and easy way, the other things, like personal and educational details, s/he can read in the plain text version.
*) hopefully the HR-person is clued in the world of tech that they know what a tag cloud is…
