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by CaptainMorgan 5673 days ago
Seems simple to me: the major issue with this resume is the amount of noise. If you're submitting this via email or through online application forms you should stick to one page. If this is to be displayed on your website then I would just reduce the number of images(possibly all of them), and do a spelling check. Objective statements should be short and to the point. Same with descriptions... I really don't see the need for the long paragraphs and the bloated number of tags you're using. Whether it's a site or as a printout on paper, the hiring manager is limited on time.

Take a look at some of these examples, a lot of them are ideal in terms of efficiency and noise. Best of luck.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hresume-examples-in-wild

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Thanks, this will be really helpful. I've looked at hresume microformat and as I mentioned in the original post, I was actually going to implement it that way.

The reason for including a lot of other non-professional things was that I would like to be hired by somebody who understands a lot of them; be it a one man startup. I have often found that 'jelling' is more important than technical competencies.

Thanks for your feedback.