Pinterest resumes - a way to pin down jobs?

Pinterest is known as a popular online pin board for photos of fashion, food recipes, and arts and crafts projects, but it has also become a place to find creative job resumes. One man's resume making the rounds on Pinterest presents previous jobs as steps along Darwin's theory of evolution, while another lists a woman's work experience as "entrees" on a restaurant menu. While Facebook has the lion's share of attention in social networking, Palo Alto's Pinterest has quickly burst onto the scene and now has more than 11.7 million users. [...] job seekers can use social networks to accelerate their search, said Christopher Penn, who teaches an online advanced social media class for the University of San Francisco. For his classes, Penn recently posted a demonstration resume that uses Pinterest's system of online pin boards, which members normally use to post photos of whatever they're passionate about, such as dresses, shoes, food or ballparks. [...] Penn used the virtual boards to post screen shots showing his career stops, such as when he was chief technology officer for the Student Loan Network and his current job as director of inbound marketing for online marketing firm WhatCounts. Jimmy Moore of Columbia, Mo., said he did land the job he wanted with a local cable access television station because of his unusual resume, which depicted his skills evolving from a monkey walking on all fours after his college graduation to a man walking upright holding a camera when he worked for a commercial TV station. Moore said that while he used more traditional networking methods to find his current job, interest from Pinterest in his resume caught the attention of other video industry recruiters who contacted him to find other people he might know who were also looking for jobs. [...] thinking creatively and gaining attention is helping Brian Einarsen, whose "I'm looking for a new job and this is my job application" playlist resume on Spotify has also been shared on Pinterest.