Hey Tim,<p>I'm a little confused by the two different colored bars (blue and gray) in the skills section of your resume. What is the difference between them?<p>Also, it may be nice to include your name in the fixed header on the page. I think it's more important to constantly see your name rather than the navigation circles, especially if some people will simply scroll down the page rather than click on each circle.<p>Although people have said that resumes are no longer relevant, I'd still offer the viewers the option to print or download a standard resume from your site. Just cover your bases.
If you think about the purpose of a resume, it's to provide your potential employer with a snapshot of your skills and experience. This presentation method is probably the most inefficient way to do it.<p>The reason folks recommend resumes be a one-pager is because it's the best way to quickly digest information and see if you're going to be a good fit.<p>If you're going to use the web as the medium for your resume, make it something like a one-page scroller with the ability to easily jump between sections, minimizing the animations and maximizing readability.<p>Additionally, I'm not sure who you're shooting for as far as a potential employer, but I'm personally turned off by the "Oh Hai!" It just makes me think you'll spend half your day surfing Reddit.
Apart from "Oh Hai" I like it. Do you really need to associate yourself with a meme like that? In my experience, meme-loving people aren't very interesting to be around in real life, and that opening statement caused me to instantly jump to a lot of conclusions about you that are most likely incorrect.
Personally I'd go with a somewhat better photo. It doesn't need to be a standard resume picture with you in a suit. Just something that isn't clearly cropped from a random party snapshot.
Tim it looks like you used our (Dress Rush) online pitch deck as inspiration... very cool.<p><a href="http://investors.dressrush.com" rel="nofollow">http://investors.dressrush.com</a><p>Did you use the jQuery plugin we built too?<p><a href="http://dressrush.com/blog/post/12506021124/dressrush-online-pitch-deck" rel="nofollow">http://dressrush.com/blog/post/12506021124/dressrush-online-...</a><p>Good luck with the job hunt!
Nice job on the resume. It's unfortunate the applicant systems preferred by big companies (Taleo, Brassring, etc) do not give candidates a channel through which to differentiate themselves in a creative way as you have done. Of course there are ways to bypass the process entirely using social channels, but that doesn't scale from a systemic standpoint. I'd love to see someone invent a better system.
I think resumes like this are nice to show off your front-end design capabilities, but it takes a long time to get relevant information out of them, as opposed to glancing at a black-and-white single-sided 8x11 sheet of paper. You still need something that people can look at and instantly make a decision as to whether or not they want to dig deeper into you.
Thanks for all of the feedback already. I agree that paper resumes won't be going away any time soon so I'll definitely need one of those if I pull the trigger. I also agree on the profile photo and the experience graph. I'll try and get those cleaned up.<p>@Feanim, thanks for the bigger image. I couldn't find one so I had to stretch it a bit.
There is something about the progress bars (in the 'languages/syntax expertise levels' section) that just doesn't work visually. Actually it does work, but I just had to find one area for your improving it - as to offer some feedback.<p>Very clean and good job.
I've been debating leaving my current job (4 years post acquisition) for a smaller startup. I decided to create something a little different after all of the talk recently of resumes no longer being relevant. I'd love any feedback.
I like it, good job!<p>p.s. you should use a bigger macvim image <a href="http://macin.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/macvim-7-2-icon.png" rel="nofollow">http://macin.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/macvim-7-2-icon.png</a>
I thought blue and gray bar graph was awesome. It took me just a second to figure out what the two colors represented. I also love the fact he didn't put a facebook link.
I built mine the other week, my first time building a website: <a href="http://www.angusthompson.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.angusthompson.com/</a>
If you can't find a job without a snazzy online resume, then you do not have saleable skills.<p>This undoubtedly seems harsh, but go do something useful and live your life.