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Making your CV stand out from a pile of papers or a bunch of pixels on a screen is hard as hell. How can people who went to similar schools and worked similar jobs and have similar skills differentiate themselves? By being clever. Like Philippe Dubost. He turned his CV into an Amazon product page. It’s brilliant!
Philippe Dubost, a web product manager, refashioned the boring ‘ol lines on lines on lines on no margins CV into something that is pretty much universally known: Amazon. He essentially put his CV on Amazon. Reviews come from previous employers, descriptions show off his work experience and skills, adding to cart lets you contact Dubost. He even had some fun and threw in a cute joke about ‘Only 1 left in stock’ and ‘Add to cart for pricing information’. It’s great.
If anyone needs a web product manager, go get yourself a Philippe Dubost. [PhilDub via Design Taxi]
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the add to wedding registry bi is funny because if you click on it a pop up say ‘not happening’ lol
that is a fantastic CV
Slightly OCD of me, but it annoys me that the spread of review scores he’s got would not give him a 5-star rating.
Would you hire someone who rates themselves as 10/10?
He’s saying that it says 5 stars at the top of the page but the reviews wouldn’t add up to 5 stars.
It is pretty clever but at the same time it is just a copy of a design. Still he proves that he is a good candidate for a web product manager position.
OK it’s all very clever (I’ve seen CVs along these lines before) but it just boils down to shallow attention seeking really.
This CV would only be suitable for a design job, or at least to demonstrate a flair for design as part of a greater role, but on that point this CV doesn’t embrace design or UI web layout to make it easy for employers to view his credentials or portfolio of past projects.
It looks good, but many recruitment agencies use robots to read CVs these days. I work for a company who sell those robots, and the fancier CVs like this often get caught up somewhere in the system. That said, if this guy is getting blogged now he probably doesn’t have to worry about the CV robots to get noticed.
It’d be a good idea if Amazons product pages weren’t horrible.
On my experience this would get thrown away. Unless it’s specifically for a designing job.
Employers don’t want to hunt for information, they want to see the info they need right there. They don’t want to hunt around a fake webpage to look for info.
I would bin it