(This dashboard leverages Viz Animations, Gantt Charts and custom JavaScript Image and Video Carousels.)

Your resume is your first line of defense on the quest for a new job or career. However, before posting it to LinkedIn or hitting send, it’s important you do everything possible to make your personality and skills stand out. Even if your experience is impressive, a subpar generic resume can sink your chances of getting an interview. But if you learn to combine good design practice, the YOU factor, and carefully chosen aspects of your experience into creating a compelling interactive resume, you’ll set yourself apart from the competition.

With recruiters spending just 6 seconds skimming each resume, it’s now more important than ever to make your resume standout. And when data literacy is one of the most in-demand skills in the workplace, your resume could be a visual representation of your actual data skills. Show the recruiters your analytical skills and creativity by creating your very own Tableau Public Viz resume. 

Typically, resumes contain all the usual suspects: education, a timeline of jobs, maybe some technical skills, and likely your contact information. An element that many lack, even the interactive ones I’ve seen, is the personal aspect. Another misstep—not giving adequate time to consider the design of your resume. Think about the layout, what each section will hold, colors, purpose, interactivity, and creativity. It’s worth changing your perspective on how you think about creating resumes, and I’m here to show you the approach I took when I built mine.