Last week, Gabriella Evelina Britth (pictured), fulfilled her promise to tweet her resume (albeit an unusual resume) over five days.

The final tweet links to a spreadsheet on Google Docs that catalogs all the preceding tweets, gives the links contained in each tweet, categorizes each into “personal” or “professional” (the tweets are almost evenly divided between professional and personal), and tells the type of site or medium each link represents. Most tweets have a hashtag.

Britth’s artifacts include: Her birthplace; her resume (on LinkedIn); items from her portfolio; what she likes; what she sings in the car; pictures; an infographic depicting how she likes to work; her admiration for fictional agent Ari Gold; a video clip from a concert; a blog she follows; her portfolio; information; Web sites that inspire her; a map of where she lives; a to-do-list; video clip from movie, a video of a monkey “fighting for what he wants,” which Britth likens to herself; a “case movie of greatness;” baking instructions; a map of where she’s been; music; an infographic about how to brainstorm; links to sites she likes (such as Mashable); a slideshow speculating on what kind of animal, color, TV character, and so forth, she would be; a video in memory of her father; the food she likes; map of her first kiss; a disembodied video of Britth speaking (I didn’t hear any audio); a clip from the recent World Cup, a smiley face, which Britth consider to be “the true face of evil;” an infographic with Britth’s predictions for the future; and infographic with numbers about Britth’s life (number of days lived, footsteps taken, etc.); a slideshow telling her future story; quotes by Britth or others; her business card; checklist for the storytelling experiment; the spreadsheet that gives links + explanation of the project; plus a few others that seemed redundant, inexplicable, or where I got tired of clicking links.

My observations:

• When I first blogged about Britth’s project, I objected to the fact that the artifacts were tweeted instead of presented simultaneously and gathered in a single venue. Now that the project is complete, the artifacts are presented simultaneously in both Britth’s Twitter profile and the spreadsheet. While that’s an improvement over the tweets, I think there may be more engaging and unified ways to present the information; for example, commenter Cheryl suggested the artifacts can be gathered using Prezi or other presentation tools, resulting in something like the slideshow resume I wrote about a while back.
• The even mix of personal and professional tweets in the project helps to tell Britth’s story. We really get a good idea of who Britth is, albeit in a fragmented, postmodern way. She comes off as clever, whimsical, creative, and in possession of a good sense of humor. But many employers wouldn’t like such a heavy dose of the personal. (The file name of the graphic at left is “virginity.jpg.”)
• For practical purposes, this kind of resume is problematic for the same reason video resumes are. All are time-consuming to digest, Britth’s especially so since it requires clicking on 50 links. I was very motivated to see Britth’s links, and I still grew tired of clicking on them. Here’s where the tweeting concept does work; the audience may be more inclined to click on the links over five days.
• Britth shows that she knows her way around the Web and social media.
• While not the perfect storied resume presentation, Britth’s experiment offers lessons to others seeking to tell their stories to employers. Job-seekers would do well to consider many of the types of artifacts Britth deploys. If I were an employer in Britth’s field, I would certainly be intrigued enough to want to learn more of her story.