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"
I agree with the last point. I understand blogs are useful tools for expressing yourself but I could never see them replacing the traditional resume.
ReplyDeleteBut, blogs are like the ever-changing resume, giving a full picture of who you to your future employer. I agree, it's important to have a resume that shows your prior experience, etc, but you can just add all of that information to your blog and send that page to your prospective employer!
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