Write a resume such that I feel good about it

...So, setting aside grand experiments, today I focused on creating a barebones, functional resume conforming to the accepted wisdom, as simple as possible. I was imperfectly successful, but it was an interesting experiment—somewhat akin to writing haiku. Arbitrary and annoying and usually clumsy, but instructive nonetheless.

Of course, the problem with writing a resume such that I feel good about it is that if I actually succeeded, it wouldn’t look like a resume. And while I don’t mind being crazy and experimental, it’s a hell of a thing to do so while submitting applications to jobs. Perhaps I should design a series of experimental resumes and send them to jobs I don’t want, with little return-mail cards requesting feedback on the resume itself.

I’m probably going to be submitting my resume again, pretty soon, so I should probably invest a bit more into this one.

I’m bumping this up in the order on my list of things, because it’s really time I put some more work into it. Some weird things are happening at work, and I’m probably about to be transferred, so now is as good a time as any to start putting feelers back out; I’ve also just gone through an evaluation process at work, which should put me in a good headspace for resume stuff.

Of course, the site were I previously kept my resume is currently fucked, so any new version may not appear online until I get this goal squared away.

Given that my position with the district seems to be slightly less stable than before, owing to some layoffs in my classification, I may need to do some more work, soon, on this goal.

I can’t stand the style and standards of resume writing; I want to be able to write a resume such that the resume is a piece of real writing, with the potential of being good, and not merely a collection of heavily spin-doctored sentence fragments.

I plan to locate some of my thoughts on this, and possibly some attempts, at http://unlikelyglossary.objectis.net/workish/ResumEnglish

Note:
I am gratified by experiments such as this: http://usabilityworks.typepad.com/beginagain/