<p>What type of job do you want?</p>

<p>What type of job do you expect with a resume?</p>

<p>When I hire people for something, I care more about what the person has done or seems like they are capable of doing,  I do use more than just looking at StackExchange, but it's one of the more impressive variables to me because it signifies they were willing to go in and get their intellectual ego circumcised in order to learn or are actually at that caliber.</p>

<p>Some advice I'd give is if people left contact information in their profile if they are seeking or open to potentially intriguing things/ideas.  That, communication skills, like trying to put yourself in their shoes or really listen and think about what you don't know. </p>

<p>At the same time, I've found high scores have a tendency to correlate with 
 a difficulty to work with at times though.  But only a slight tendency.  Many, many, especially if they've been praised a ton, published somewhere, hold some position, have "the most points" intelligent people at the top of their field unfortunately suffer from egotistical bias.  That even happens to me.</p>

<p>Their egos can block them from curiosity, intrigue, teamwork, respect, "degeneracy" (heh) and are therefore difficult to communicate with as they may not realize they don't understand the context even when they say they do and sometimes are unwilling to do anything that requires them to admit a misunderstanding...or to change their means of thought...to listen...</p>

<p>If I saw a high rep user here asking questions that would be significant to me....that would be probably the ultimate sign of wisdom to me honestly.</p>

<p>But, I mean, it's every action that the site records.  And a score discards so much more information...it's unwise to just look at that.  </p>

<p>I do know that what I need help with needs to be a challenge that intrigues them - but at the same time its hard to pin them down even if they are intrigued.  Many users here are geniuses and come for fun...not to make money.  I find those that I respect on these websites to be quite elusive and already have jobs/a means of making income, but it depends.</p>

<p>The original question is 4 years old, and I'm trying to give a modern perspective.  If you're making a resume, it's to try to get a job I presume; and if you approach a company with a resume you've already lost by the way anyway - you have to be "the outlier."  And if they don't recognize your stats on stack-exchange, do you want to work for them anyway?  If they hire you based on your resume, you've also lost imo as it's likely going to lack "fit."</p>

<p>If you find someone whom has looked at you as you rather than the "meta-you" and then approaches you, you may want to consider that highly significant...and that they are hiding things too...but testing you.</p>

<p>I view finding someone to work with likely the most important decision to make - because it WILL make or break things.  I will even see how they respond to various actions I take or things I say....it's potentially thousands of variables - but SE gives a depth a resume cannot.</p>
