I agree with you, but I'd rather deliver a distracting, cluttered resume than a boring one. Anyways, most of the time, the resumes tell you very little about the person. Delivering one that's different tells you more of what you can expect, even if it's not a creative job, IMHO.
I'd rather deliver a distracting, cluttered resume than a boring one.
I similarly agree with you, except that these poorly-visualized resumes would hurt if applying for datavis jobs. Why would I hire someone if they cannot even communicate their experience effectively?
They convey almost no information about the applicant, and they're surely worse at communicating info than a resume in Garamond that reads "worked with SQL, Python, and CSS/HTML/JS for 2 years."
(1) cluttered and distracting
(2) vapid (a Frank Zappa quote and a timeline with tank top reference? a quarter page for a pie chart of one's intangibles?)
(3) terrible at actually visualizing data or information (okay...what, exactly, can these people do relative to others?)
They're beautiful resumes, for sure. But their ideas for communicating information are too clever, and if I'm hiring a datavis guy I would wonder how effectively they could visualize real information.