The internet, and all of the content about us on there, is quickly becoming the resume of the future, whether or not you want it to be.
I read this blog about how the blog is the new resume. The author writes that a blog represents you, and more and more employers are logging on to the internet to find out more information about you. He writes that a blog can sway a person's opinion of you and that while the information doesn't need to portray you as perfect, it should be honest.
However, I am weary about settling for just honest when it comes to our new online resume, whether it is a personal blog or our myspace page or what have it. People who check you out online aren't going to sit there and analyze what pictures or posts mean, they are going to make a snap judgment most likely. Therefore, I believe it is professionally dangerous to display yourself as anything less than the exact image you want employers to see.
The point is that everything you put out on the internet could be potentially used as an addition to the resume you send HR. This is not all bad, you can use your blog to demonstrate your excellent writing skills and witty nature (like I do here), or you can use your linkedin page to show your additional talents and experience that didn't quite make the one page resume cut.
If you happen to be one of those blog-challenged types, here's a how to guide from youtube. Resumes of the future... here we come!
Saturday, March 29, 2008
The Resume of the Future
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Even though I don’t think a blog can fully represent you and at times can lead to misjudgments, what ever its content it must be kept professional or else it can become a problem.
Also, I think that employers going online and checking out applicant’s personal pages is an invasion of privacy. I know they are going to keep using them as a reference, but still employers should be more worried about who is going to exceed the fullest and not what people do with their free time as long as it doesn’t affect its work.
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