Michael Anderson is a web designer and this is his resume. While a resume like this will definitely catch the recruiter’s attention, is it serving its purpose?
Firstly, by looking at the resume, we can see that this guy has definitely used an innovative approach to portray his designing skills. He explains what he did from ’95 to ’98 in terms of employment and academia, his primary skill sets and his behavioral skills using different types of idioms ; but is it helping the audience to derive the required conclusions?
As professor mentioned and as we all can see, the 3-D charts used here are quite confusing. Both the daily intake & output and primary skill sets charts are difficult to understand and analyze.
I do not understand how the different fields in the daily intake and output are related w.r.t. each other. The scale and the values are not clear. Does having less coffee increase his productivity, humor, communication etc. or they are individual graphs mapped across time independently without any relation.
Similarly, for primary skill sets, the idiom used is a donut and its 3-D – it breaks two main rules of visualization. The comparison that he is trying to show is not clear. It is mapped according to his % personal time invested in these skills. But we do not have a scale or any way to actually get the number of percentage.
For the area chart, I do not understand the usage of color. What does the different shades of a color signify? Do the overlap of area charts mean that he had multiple responsibility during that time?
Also, on the first glance, the usage of color across the resume confused me as well. I was trying to identify if there was any connection between similar colors in different charts. Apparently, there isn’t.
This resume is definitely interesting and different. I feel its attractive yet meaningless. What are your thoughts?
Michael Anderson’s Website – http://theportfolio.ofmichaelanderson.com/