Earlier today, I gained a whole different insight into my own resume. How you ask? I used Wordle to take a look at my resume as a word cloud.
It resulted in my being rather surprised that it was not precisely communicating what I had aim to communicate. It isin't the exact representation of who I think I am professionally. How intriguing... and pretty cool, I'd say. What can I learn from this? Use other descriptions and words for the cloud to become precise? Is it possible to have a precise cloud? Do I even want to do that?
I then remembered being surprised in the same way a few months ago regarding something else that is dear to my heart. And that is reading. I know what kind of books I like to read. But the tag cloud had showed me differently.
I have tagged many of my books in LibraryThing and when I looked at the cloud it did something to me that was something in between amusement and annoyance. My own personal idea of what I like to read is different than what the tag cloud showed me.
For example, the tag cloud shows that a majority of the books I've read are set in England. That is not how I would have identified my reading. Yet it gave me a different perspective on myself in a silent and subltle way. In a powerful way, I'd even say.
Still what does it mean? What can I learn from it? Not sure how to approach this new way of looking at myself or the things I do and produce in a word format. According to this technology how am I then represented? Do I even know myself?
What are the thoughts from others who will look at my cloud? Does it mean next time I send my resume a prospective employer they will plug it into wordle to see if my experience is giving them what they are looking for? How will this change things?
So now, I have an urge to put everything I do into Wordle! Can't help myself. I composed a detailed email earlier and it went into Wordle! My latest presentation? Sure! Why not honey? Put it in Wordle. This Blog entry? You bet! See for yourself!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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