My Interactive Flash Resume – Standing Out in a Recession

on Mar 14 in Internet Marketing, Web Design, Web Development by Andy Chimicles

To jump on board with all the bloggers writing about ways to make it through these hard times I am writing about how to make a flash-based interactive resume.

After spending the time building a flash MPC2000 drum machine that plays my songs [LINK], I decided I might as well use my new skills to build an interactive flash resume. There are many benefits to an interactive resume such as this:

  • Demonstrate your design skills
  • Show your creativity and “thinking-outside-the-boxedness”
  • Learn some new flash skills – it’s inevitable that you will pick up new tricks any time you do a new project such as this

There are some problems inherent in a flash-based resume. Namely, most prospective employers, if they are not hiring you for a design-specific job, don’t care to see an interactive resume. They want to see a traditional format resume, that fits in the pile with the other resumes. There is nothing wrong with this, they have job to do, to sift through the pile. This is why I recommend adding a link within your resume’s url to a .pdf version of your resume.

The other drawback, and as a search marketer I preach this often, is that flash is not a very search-friendly medium. It is getting better as Google algorithms improve [link]. It is still another reason to offer an alternative version of the resume based in html.

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Author: Andy Chimicles

Internet marketer, website developer, musician, producer, photographer, lover

This author's website address is http://www.andychimicles.com

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