Résumés in actual HTML are becoming commonplace on portfolio sites, but they often don’t get used to their full potential. An HTML version of your résumé is important because of its immediacy and updatability, but there is another important benefit: hypertext. That’s what makes the web awesome, right?
If someone isn’t familiar with the company you worked for, all you have to do is make that text a link and they can easily get more information. Why not link to your references’ websites so that an employer can find out more about them? In my résumé, I’ve even gone as far as to link to applications. Sure for Photoshop it might have been a little excessive (instead I drew the line at Word and Excel) but if someone isn’t familiar with Coda the link could be very helpful.
One challenge I’ve faced by adding links to my résumé is that the styles applied to links can easily upset a hierarchy. To solve this problem, I’m trying out a less typical styling for links: these boxes. I don’t think they are perfected yet, but they allow the text itself to maintain its original styling and hopefully its place in the hierarchy.
Do you have any thoughts—for or against—linking in résumés? Or do have an interesting way of solving the challenge of styling links? I’d love to hear your reactions in the comments.