Back at Uni during a job fair, I needed to stand out from the thousand or so other coders. I noticed companies were all trying to give out their free shit with their name on it, so I decided I'd try that myself.<p>So I made T-Shirts with my resume ironed on the front. Best $100 in marketing I ever spent, and got me multiple interviews and a lot of laughs. IBM hated it.
From my experience even epic resume can't compete with right contact inside desired company.<p>I have posted my resumes to my current company three times, but without success. After two years I had "insider" there, who recommended me to his manager and I was hired only with formal interview process.
Best one is:<p><a href="http://www.stroustrup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.stroustrup.com/</a><p>Most interesting is "I designed and implemented the C++ programming language."
Project manager applied for the job with some border control experience.<p>Duties included:<p>· FOCUS ON DETECTION APPREHENSION AND/OR DETERRENCE OF TERRORISTS AND TERRORIST WEAPONS.
I received an application from a guy that was getting back into programming after not working for many years. We brought him in because his resume was very interesting. He worked for IBM in the mid 1970s and he started working for MSFT in the late 1970s. One of his notable projects was porting Basic to Mac OS, his direct supervisor was one Paul Allen.<p>He was totally legit, but ultimately wasn't interested in what we were doing. He was fascinating to talk to.
Just make it easy to parse.<p>Dates jumping around especially are a pain. Make it easy to read. Give to a friend to check, preferably a friend who has experience of hiring others.
I have not really seen anything epic, but I did get one filled with curse words before. I think the guy was going for shock value, but it did not work for me.
Eh, this is impossible for larger organizations. Mind you the hiring committees I've been on are just that, committees of 3-4 people. Maybe one person makes the phone call to the person at the end, but behind the scenes there are several people potentially looking at the resumes. Alice's version of perfect can differ from Bob and Charlies definition
This guy pretty much killed it:<p><a href="http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/" rel="nofollow">http://www.rleonardi.com/interactive-resume/</a>