It's not about trying to catch attention, it's saying "I'm so good that even though this is totally unprofessional you're still going to want me"

It's the resume equivalent of Culture ships with silly names/AI personas.

At a certain level, it's boring to just be good. The interesting challenge becomes to stay good while being silly as fuck.

And that's why I'm serious and professional.

...you're going to want me...kept away from others due to HR cringing at my presence.

You're not filtering him out of the hiring pool, he's filtering you. ;)

Yeah, my own resume isn't (or wasn't, it has been years since i updated it) that flair-y, but it does have a sidebar with screenshots of stuff i worked on (with my face doing a weird look at the top) and is in mostly prose style with bold text for each of the projects i worked on (bold helps to scan for stuff, at least that was the idea). I've been told a few times (by friends) that this isn't how resumes are supposed to look like but my line of thinking is that if you are so stuck up that you want a specific format for a resume, then you're most likely too stuck up for me to want to work with you :-P.

My team is in a full-on hiring spree right now. I've opted out of it because there's no process.

Ultimately, it boils down to people's gut feelings, which is so disgustingly random.

The real WTF is: Apparently there is a place called "Unalaska" in Alaska!

My understanding is that the in the local language "Alaska" means "Peninsula," and "Unalaska" means "Near the peninsula."