It’s hard to attract much attention with a resume, right? I mean, if you’ve seen one, you’ve seem them all. Not so on both counts for an enterprising – and creative – web product manager from Paris, France, by the name of Philippe Dubost. His resume takes the form of an amazing Amazon product page. But don’t just check out the screen grab, go here and see it for yourself.
For the past six years Dubost says he has put his energy towards growing and enhancing meaningful web products and services, including starting his own web product, APPARTINFO.com, which he says is the first online local review guide on apartments and neighborhoods in France.
He is bilingual and has lived in the U.S., Mexico and France, and is available for shipping anywhere in the world!
Be sure to check out some of the live links on his online resume, which is also his personal website, where he presents himself as a shoppable item.
Note to potential employers, there is only one Dubost left in stock, so anyone interested should order soon.
Note to potential employers, there is only one Dubost left in stock, so anyone interested should order soon.
The social media links are live, as are some of the other buttons such as Add to Cart and Add to Wish List.
I recently wrote here about a supposedly great cover letter that was making the rounds on Wall Street. Although some Staffing Talk readers were impressed, I wasn’t particularly. I just didn’t see the creativity others seemed to.
Then again, I am a writer, and wasn’t impressed with the writing in the cover letter. But I am not a web designer, and am impressed with Philippe’s work, so I guess that’s a caveat to this.
Others are seeing it too, though. He has generated hundreds of visitors to his website and he is doing interviews with media outlets, including one with a radio station in Houston just this morning.
Thoughts? Reactions? Would you hire him for an IT position?
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Sure, it looks great. Plus free super saver shipping, but he’s not Prime eligible. What if I needed him in 2 days, I would be afraid to find out what those shipping cost would be.
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so where is the fabulous resume you speak of? all I see is another sales gimmick
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The guy is a web designer, or web product manager as he calls himself (there may be some differences between IT terminology in his native France and here), and his “resume” is not so thinly disguised as an Amazon web page. So he has a resume/website that showcases the web design skills someone would hire him for. Est-ce que tu me comprends?
What is a resume in your world Gary? Most think of the purpose of a resume as a mechanism to provide a summary of skills, abilities and accomplishments, a quick advertisement of who we are and what we can do, done with the intent of capturing someone’s interest and securing an interview with a potential employer.
Do you not think Monsieur Dubost did that? He has bulleted some accomplishments, ranked his skills, listed previous employers, provided recommendations from previous engagements and employers, and shown some technical and marketing creativity through his mimicking of the Amazon page.
So everything you want/need in a traditional resume is contained here, and displayed in a much more creative fashion, owing to his technical capabilities.
I’m not sure exactly what you mean by “another sales gimmick,” as I haven’t seen a resume exactly like this one before.
But call it what you want. In my book, it worked. Do you think a web guy in Paris France, would be generating hundreds and hundreds of page views from around the globe, and giving media interviews, if he had a traditional text resume floating around?
The word fabulous is your word, not mine, but I think he attracted lots of attention in a noisy world, and isn’t that the intent of a job seeker?
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Personally I loved his ‘resume’. I wouldn’t look to hire him straight up but I’d probably start some form of informal communication with him that could eventually lead to doing business later. I keep a couple dozen or so such relationships going online.
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