resume
Made with Love
!!! scroll to the bottom if you only want to see the picture !!!
About this
These days, I keep my resume as an SVG built from the ground up. SVG is a graphically-powerful, document-based markup language, which makes it a great option for representing creative intent.
This way, I can send people a link, and if they need to copy and paste all the text, I can rest assured knowing it’s well-structured.
Building it by hand helps me remain aware of which thoughts or ideas of mine feel easy to express or give life. I like to keep this in mind as I explore other mediums and the materials they encourage.
The Old Resume
As I’ve been applying to jobs, I noticed there were a few ways my most recently-previous resume had been parsed into various forms or textboxes.
The inconsistency was because of the format (I always saved it as a PDF) and the way it was made (prioritizing aesthetics over accessibility).
Adobe InDesign gave me a lot of power at my fingertips making PDFs, and I still appreciate elements of my previous resume’s design, but it was just too cumbersome trying to arrange and layer the text such that it could be consistently interpreted by an unpredictable system.
Adobe Illustrator allowed me to export SVGs, but I ran into a similar difficulty making the layers consistently meaningful.
The layer and class names were generated, which helped with unique reference, but didn’t facilitate change operationalization.
The generated code was very bloated, and used inefficient but consistent methods for achieving layout.
The New Resume
Now, the resume I use is a lot easier to intentionally change.
I’ve gotten more fluent using SVG constructs, and I feel confident that I can copy and paste the substance behind my resume into most forms without jumbling the meaning.
I’m excited to dive deeper into SVG animation, especially for the sake of learning how we relate to media now that the AI revolution is picking up speed.
!! It’s Interactive !!
- There are links you can click,
- copy the text and paste it into an editor to see a secret message :)
