Have you tried Wordle yet? It’s fun, and it’s addictive. I took my resume and tweaked it slightly*, and then imported it into Wordle. Here you can see me, in about 99 words. Fun!
*To tweak my resume, this is what I did:
for words that I wanted to have joined together (like “public relations”), replace the space between the words with a tilde (public~relations)
took my name and copied/pasted it about 15 times, so that I was sure my name would be the largest word in the image
replaced variations of a word (like communicates, communication, communicate) and standardized it to one word (communication)
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