Nice idea.

But it’s not clear from your post how these are produced. Is there a website that can build these based on data you enter or are they pieces of bespoke design?

Not sure who did it first, but this example is certainly my recommendation

http://www.goslingo.com/

What a mess, looks like a leftover plate of spaghetti.

If I got one of these it would go straight in the bin.

People are applying for jobs, not art contests.

Nice idea but no banana. I wouldn’t take time to try and decipher this.

Creative and surprising, but I don’t think human resources will appreciate it! Although it can be a success if arrives to the right hands.

I am a director of one of the UK’s top Rec Agencies – Very interesting article

Nice article. To answer your question ‘Does it still convey all the information that a recruiter might want?’, how about if only the cover letter is turned into an infographic with targeted information, and the traditional resume left as it were? That way you get the best of both worlds. In fact, that’s our line of business.

I did my CV as a partial infographic and marketing piece last year. End employers loved it, but agencies loathed it (well to be more accurate 50% of them hated it).

In the end I caved and now use a boring old word CV…Yawn…

This is not an infographic. This is some information and some graphics. People get this wrong all the time. An infographic should utilise the medium of graphic to better represent the data not just have some added cartoons. Frankly it makes her look stupid that she can’t use the medium properly and she should stick to text.