Well, it is time to update my resume. It has been a year, I have failed at more things. I’ve read more failure resumes, and I like some of the newer ideas, for example, listing your NON-skills. I’ve added mine.
One idea for brave souls willing to try, is to submit both your Regular CV / resume AND your Failure resume to your next job interview. Here are 1 page versions of mine (REGULAR resume – 1 page / FAILURE resume – 1 page).
And, wouldn’t you know, the most popular post on this blog, after 3 years of weekly writing on aspirational topics in informatics?
My original Failure Resume. Go figure.
I love some of the writing out there on Failure Resumes:
- Stanford Engineering: “come to terms with the mistakes … made along the way and … extract important lessons”
- Forbes: Of 10 job applications, received 0 responses to traditional resume, but 8 responses for a traditional resume PLUS a failure resume.
- Inc.com: why to encourage your employees to make a failure resume.
- Even Einstein struggled: a scientific paper on how describing Einstein’s struggles to science students increased students’ hopefulness and engagement with science class.
- ScienceAlert.com: A CV of failures is an entertaining and instructive read
CMIO’s take? I’ll be teaching an Informatics Leadership course soon, and will expect all our participants to write a one-page Failure Resume. Join us!
I just want to thank all my readers out there who read this post carefully, and NO ONE NOTICED that I the link from my REGULAR 1-page Resume AS WELL AS the link from my 1-page FAILURE Resume BOTH went to my FAILURE Resume. Just another FAILURE on my part.
It is fixed now, in case anyone is out there, wondering.