Ultimate Resume?

The new "ultimate resume" it seems is the blog and a ready available stream of people to social network with. These two different tools make great sense and their is probably no reason for you to not use them. What I like about both articles was that although they did say these were great fro improving how you look in the business world they will never trump the face to face interview that all people need. 

Besides that though a great thing that caught my eye was the two different facebook profiles which for me makes a great deal of sense. You can have your fun and more personalized friend one that you use and you can also have your business friendly related one that's toned down. That way people aren't going checking your facebook and seeing all your personal stuff. In my opinion everyone has fun and does thing that they don't want some people to see, lets keep it that way and just let business look at a professional article.

Finally one thing that I had to disagree with is that everyone can do the blog thing as a use for job resume. To be honest I don't think thats true, yeah it would help but their are some people who are really good at their jobs but just don't have the blog feel to them. Everyone is good at certain things and yeah I get you want good personal people to work for you  but not everyone can express all of that on a blog. Sometimes its good to use the real resume and call up the people they worked with to find out of good they really are.

"Social networking has its perks- NJ.com"

"Traces of Inspiration, The Blog is the New Resume"

Becoming Collaborated

It seems we have taken a nice turn towards the future in education and business. We are finally understanding to use the computer and accept it as a tool for good instead of a tool for evil. In both articles "Students discovering online collaboration | - NJ.com" and "Collaborate Using Online Tools - PCWorld Business Center" we see a nice introduction of the use of blogs and other collaborative tools to be more in touch with the work they are doing and even more importantly, getting in touch with the outside world.

This is just wonderful in my opinion and I envy the kids the most and admire the business that use these tools to be more successful.  Man if i got to use the computer in the way that these kids do to prepare myself for now, I know I be better off. The only thing that bothered was the last comment in one of the readings that said the work on the computer is to be serious. Yes I get its work, but the computer and the internet are their to explore and learn things and if you limit it even a little bit then you are suggesting that as whole the internet is wrong. Let kids explore let your employees have a little fun they might find something more interesting to aid them in their work and make it better.