This is the quarter when I am applying for internships. After speaking to the career counselor at school , she suggested me to generate a word cloud out of my resume. I tried to create a word cloud via an online word cloud generator. I used https://worditout.com/word-cloud/create to create the word cloud.
For creating the word cloud , I copied the text of my resume and clicked on generate. Essentially, word clouds represent the frequency of the words used , higher the frequency bigger the font of that specific word.
This is the visualization which resulted from my resume. I am interested in data analytics and new product development, hence words like data, analytics, business, design, database, SQL are used more, and that is reflected in the cloud.
Upon first look , I was able to spot the words data, analytics, and Microsoft. It can be inferred that these words are used the highest number of times in the text on my resume. This word cloud gives an overview of the words and my interests out of my resume. By simply looking at it, certain domains can be identified within a second, where as it takes time to read through the whole resume document.
I found this extensively appealing and tried it on multiple documents. It analyses important words and suggests the words that are not displayed on the word cloud to reorganize or regenerate.
I also tried a few variations on my old resume and found how that reflects on my new resume. The visualizations change accordingly and could highlight more important words on your resume.