[mdup]

Recently I've tried an approach where I send two documents when asked for a CV:

- a "classic" CV which describes education, skills, work experience, and "miscellaneous" projects (late night hacks mostly);

- a second document entitled "friendly CV" but which is actually a short pdf with slides. It is super casual and I explain my previous work with pictures of algorithms and technical stuff. I cut down all the noise and try to speak directly to the inner geek of my potential reader.

From my perspective, I'd say I had quite some success with it.

I think it doesn't matter if you do exactly that. The point is to wake up your reader if you're the 50th CV they're reading this afternoon.