'Happiness comes from exertion that challenges but does not break us, in the service of a goal that excites us' - Baker, Greenberg, Hemingway book: "What Happy Companies Know" p108

Deployed onto the internet about a year ago, ResumeRace is a new experimental web application revolving around work resumes. It has the philosophy that instead of blindlessly sending one's resume to every employer, that one should focus on one's self and reflect upon thyself first. Only then, will each person be more true to themselves, thus increases the chances of finding the perfect job.

Why this and not other sites? The way career type sites deal with resumes is that workers post their resume(s). A head hunter, which usually has no knowledge of the job seeker's talents, tries to sort through the pile of resumes. The problem is with the job market as hard as it is, potential employees ends up submitting their resumes to any kind of industry they can. With unemployment at an all time high, people get more desperate and more cheating may occur. Employers get overwhelmed.

With ResumeRace, the first step we ask is to rate yourself among various questions when you join. You'll then introduce yourself and then post your resume(s). Then review resumes in your field, and rate them against the 50+ questions we ask. When you're rating, don't think of it as judging, but rather bringing out anything you notice that could be improved. You're rating your sense of the person, not the resume. If you're not sure about one, skip it. Others do the same for you. The whole point is to cut through clutter and get to what really matters, the person! Everyone is anonymous when rating.

Start to see if what you think about yourself matches what other say about you based on your resume. Perhaps you're not expressive enough, or need to develop your resumes further. ResumeRace.com will also show you how similar you are to others. The app will show you how accurate your instincts are when rating a certain person. It will not only show the best resumes in a job sector, but also suggest similar resumes like you! This will come in handy if your employer ever asks if you know any good people around you. You'll feel comfortable suggesting members found on your page at ResumeRace.com

But if anything, you'll gain insight on yourself. You'll get fresh ideas on improving your resume from others. This site is for you if you can imagine resumes stacked high on the hiring mananger's desk, and who believes we'll get better answers by coming together in our same line of work. You should also use this site if you're employed and want to lend a helping hand to your fellow person. And if you can see the vision, you belong here.

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• Overall Fail Overall Excellent Your own overall rating for yourself. close 250 characters left.

  Boring Exciting Are you exciting? Excitation is an elevation in energy level above an arbitrary baseline energy state. In other words, this person seems more energetic than usual 'normal' people. Select toward 'Boring' if you're boring. close 250 characters left.

• Dumb Genius Are you smart or dumb? Pretty straight forward here. close 250 characters left.

  Undermining Exaggerating Exaggeration means the describing of something and making it more than it really is. The verb is to exaggerate. An example of exaggeration would be: I was walking along when suddenly this enormous dog came up to me. It was as big as an elephant. The dog may have been big, but it was certainly not as big as that. Select towards 'Undermining' if the opposite of this. close 250 characters left.

• Visionary Detail Driven A visionary can see the unforeseen. They can also be a person with a clear, distinctive and specific (in some details) vision of the future, usually connected with advances in technology or social/political arrangements. close 250 characters left.

  Spontaneous Planner Are you an 'in the moment' kind of person? Spontaneity means the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint. Select toward 'Planner' if opposite. close 250 characters left.

• Scattered Focused Are you focused, or does their mind drift and has a low attention span? Focused people have the ability to block out potential distractions at a greater level than is common for most people. Select toward 'Scattered' if you're the opposite from focused. close 250 characters left.

  Desperate Confident Do you have confidence in yourself? The socio-psychological concept of self-confidence relates to self-assuredness in one's personal judgment, ability, power, etc. Self confidence is the difference between feeling unstoppable and feeling scared out of your wits. close 250 characters left.

• Clumsy Graceful Graceful acts include affirming others, giving preference to others, manifesting manners, being courteous, and simply helping others without being asked. Persons who are full of grace act as if they're in flow. They remain cool under all degrees of both good and bad. In the heat of competition, amid conflict, in extenuating circumstances keep that personality trait in mind and respond gracefully. close 250 characters left.

  Righteous Compromising How compassionate and cooperative are you as a person? If you are righteous, you are a rigid and have a non-compromising personality. You want your way at any cost and cannot take no for an answer. Or perhaps you are 'Compromising' - you're able to ride with the wind and compromise. close 250 characters left.

• Content Angry Are you a satisfied person or pissed off at the world? close 250 characters left.

  Devils Advocate Optimist Do you see the glass half empty or full? Pessimism, from the Latin word (worst), is a state of mind which negatively colors the perception of life, especially with regard to future events. To be optimistic is to see the good side of all things. close 250 characters left.

• Vague Clear and direct Are you clear and direct when you express yourself Is your reasoning unclouded by biases, prejudices, hopes and fears, and uncritically accepted assumptions or facts. Select toward 'Vague' if you're messy and extra complicated. close 250 characters left.

  Druggie Drug free Select 'Drug free' if you're physical and/or psychological not addicted to a psychoactive (mind-altering) substance, such as narcotics, alcohol, or nicotine. close 250 characters left.

• Shy Extrovert Are you outgoing or alone into your own self? Extroverts are directed towards the objective world whereas Introverts are directed towards the subjective world. close 250 characters left.

  Novice Master The Master Craftsmen supports and promotes excellence. Their procedures in life and habits expect only the highest standards. To themselves, trade and public alike, they represent skill, integrity, quality and service in all professionalism. Select closer to "Novice" if you seem opposite of this. close 250 characters left.

• Obedient Rebellious Do you follow orders without question? If they seem to always be in line and take direction as they are given, select 'Obedient'. Otherwise, perhaps you're a rebel! Rebellion is a refusal of obedience. Perhaps you wish to take over the government? close 250 characters left.

  A thinker A feeler 'Thinkers' decide based primarily on logic. They tend to see the world in black and white and dislike fuzziness. 'Feelers' decide based primarily through social considerations, listening to their heart and considering the feelings of others. They see life as a human existence and material things as being subservient to this. They value harmony and use tact in their interactions with others. close 250 characters left.

• Ambitious Lazy Ambition is the desire for personal achievement. Ambitious persons seek to be the best at what they choose to do for attainment, power, or superiority. Ambition is also the object of this desire. close 250 characters left.

  Closed Open Are you open to the world? People who are open to experience are no different in mental health from people who are closed to experience. There is no relationship between openness and neuroticism, or any other measure of psychological well-being. Being open and closed to experience are simply two different ways of relating to the world. close 250 characters left.

• Honest Deceiving Honesty is speaking truth and creating trust in minds of others. This includes all varieties of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Conversely, dishonesty can be defined simply as behavior that is performed with intent to deceive. Lying by commission, lying by omission, fraud, and plagiarism are all examples of this sort of behavior. Other examples can be doing one thing and telling the other, as if you are hiding something. close 250 characters left.

  Caring Uncaring Do you have a heart and care for others? Or are you 'cold-hearted and Uncaring'? close 250 characters left.

• Embracer Rejector It it easy for you to accept things that happen or are given to you, or is your personality trait more of a refusing type? If you say "yes" a lot, select 'Acceptance'. close 250 characters left.

  Considerate Inconsiderate Most of us encounter inconsiderate people on a daily basis. It's the person at the mall who neglects to hold a door open for you, or the woman at the grocery store who inadvertently cuts in line in front of you. Inconsiderate behavior can drain our spirits and leave us feeling irritable and cranky. It can wound our image of basic human nature and convert us to negative individuals. close 250 characters left.

• A learner Constricted In psychology and education, a common definition of learning is a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one's knowledge, skills, values, and world views (Illeris,2000; Ormorod, 1995). close 250 characters left.

  Forgiving Resentful Forgiveness is typically defined as the process of concluding resentment, indignation or anger as a result of a perceived offense, difference or mistake, and/or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. The Oxford English Dictionary defines forgiveness as 'to grant free pardon and to give up all claim on account of an offense or debt' close 250 characters left.

• Controlling A freedom giver Are you often domineering? A person who needs to be in control must know all the answers up front; they cannot wait patiently to see how events may turn out or what other people may have planned. They do not trust others' competency or the power of God to take care of the details of life. close 250 characters left.

  Friendly Hostile Are you kind to others, as a friend would behave? A friendly person implies a mode of friendship as distinct from amiable or genial. Professional service is expected to be amiable or genial but not necessarily friendly. The opposite is unfriendly or even hostile. close 250 characters left.

• Wasteful Frugal Common strategies of frugality include the reduction of waste, curbing costly habits, suppressing instant gratification by means of fiscal self-restraint, seeking efficiency, avoiding traps, defying expensive social norms, embracing cost-free options, using barter, and staying well-informed about local circumstances and both market and product/service realities. close 250 characters left.

  An altruist Selfish Selfishness denotes the precedence given in thought or deed to the self: i.e., self interest or self concern. It is the act of placing one's own needs or desires above the needs or desires of others. Selfishness is the opposite of 'Altruism' (selflessness). close 250 characters left.

• Grateful Unappreciative Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive. The opposite is an unappreciative person. close 250 characters left.

  Humble Prideful The term "humility" is derived from the Latin word "humilitas", translated not only as "humble", but also alternatively as "low", or "from the earth", and "humus", humid. Because the concept of humility addresses intrinsic self-worth, it is emphasized in the realm of religious practice and ethics where the motion is often made more precise and extensive. close 250 characters left.

• Responsible Unreliable Responsibility is a value that is in the consciousness of the person, which allows them to reflect, manage, guide and assess the consequences of their actions, always at the level of morality. Once passed to the ethical level (implementation), there remain these four elements to establish the magnitude of such actions and deal with them in the most purposeful and comprehensive, always working towards improving social, cultural and natural. close 250 characters left.

  Calm Nervous Are you a calm, peaceful, quiet person? Or are you filled with anxiety - a generalized mood condition that occurs without an identifiable triggering stimulus. As such, it is distinguished from fear, which occurs in the presence of an observed threat. close 250 characters left.

• Alert Dull Are you fatigued in thinking, usually in a 'whatever' kind of attitude? Or are you always sharp and awake? close 250 characters left.

  Groomed Dirty Do you take good care of yourself in terms of always dressing nice, smelling good, and conditioned down to every conceivable detail? Or can people smell you a thousand miles away because you don't ever seem to shower? (Perhaps you're not even aware of this!) close 250 characters left.

• Complete Leaves unfinished Do you finish what you start? Or do you start things and leave them unfinished? close 250 characters left.

  Conscious Unconscious Consciousness is subjective experience or awareness or wakefulness or the executive control system of the mind. "Anything that we are aware of at a given moment forms part of our consciousness, making conscious experience at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives"- Schneider & Velmans, 2007 close 250 characters left.

• Constructive Destructive Helping to improve; promoting further development or advancement (opposed to destructive). Constructive criticism, or constructive analysis, is a compassionate attitude towards the person qualified for criticism. Having higher experience, gifts, respect, knowledge in specific field and being able to verbally convince at the same time, this person is intending to uplift the other person materially, morally, emotionally or spiritually. close 250 characters left.

  Uncreative Creative Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new. close 250 characters left.

• Delegates Does everything In an organization, the delegator finds others to do specialized tasks necessary to complete the job. President Obama is an example of a delegator. Otherwise, would this person believe that a committee of one gets the job done. An example is Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, who built every aspect of the personal computer, by himself. close 250 characters left.

  Efforts gets results Efforts wasted Does your hard work seem to convert into clear results that add value or is positive in some manner? Or do you run the risk of finding your efforts wasted in energy and time? close 250 characters left.

• Goal-less Goal-oriented Not to be confused with ambition (a person could have great ambition, but no well defined goals). Are you goal oriented? close 250 characters left.

  Good Evil Are you an angel or the devil? close 250 characters left.

• Health Unhealthy Do you keep healthy? Do you exercise/bike on a regular basis? Do you shop at organic markets? Take vitamins? This is not to be confused with being well groomed. close 250 characters left.

  Waiting The initiator Do you wait for a miracle to happen, or are you a self starters who take the initiative to get something done, without being told what to do? close 250 characters left.

• Lucky Unlucky Does it seem like you have luck on your side? If so, you just have everything magically happen your way! Or do you have to wear a raincoat all the time because it never stops raining on you? close 250 characters left.

  Organized Disorganized Traits of an organized person are: orderly, disciplined, planning, tidy, consistent, methodological, precise, and neat. They have a knack for order and have things categorized. Their ability to manage time is impressive. Or perhaps this person seems messy and disorganized? close 250 characters left.

• Impatient Patient Patience is the state of endurance under difficult circumstances, which can mean persevering in the face of delay or provocation without becoming annoyed or upset; or exhibiting forbearance when under strain, especially when faced with longer-term difficulties. It is also used to refer to the character trait of being steadfast. Antonyms include hasty and impetuous. close 250 characters left.

  Punctual Late You don't worry too much about time. You'll get there whenever you can. If this is true, select towards 'Late'. close 250 characters left.

• Tough Weak Not to be confused with 'Righteous vs Compromising', to be tough means you're able to handle problems and obstacles better than others. Your tenacity/courage keeps going on and on! You are resilient! Or do you lack discipline and will falter at every problem that comes your way? close 250 characters left.

  Wealthy In poverty You don't have to be 'wealthy' in monetary form, but it could be that you truly believe your perspective and mindset are in line with those who are wealthy in money. close 250 characters left.

• Well behaved Rude Do you have internal set of strict manners? Do you hold yourself up and act impeccable towards others? Or perhaps, you'll take that call from that annoying ring-tone that was set on high, and speak loud and clear during a meeting, and not even apologize, as if nothing happened? close 250 characters left.

  A risk-taker Averse to risk Would you bet all your chips on one number? If you're able to, you enjoy the thrill of risk! Or are you conservative and would prefer the safer side? close 250 characters left.

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