In my opinion, the resume is outdated and needs to be done away with. Unfortunately, its pretty ingrained into our current job system. Its like an angry tick that has embedded itself into ourselves. Lucky for us the Internet will take care of it. What do I mean by that? Well if you start a blog, or a collection of Internet stuff (guitar riffs for instance) that quantify what it is that you do, it becomes your resume. Your collection of work can be accessed by anyone from anywhere. Think about that for a minute. If you take the time to post just one thing a day during a normal work week, you are capable of building quite a large database of stuff that supports who you are and what you do. Compare that to a single sheet of paper that contains silly information like your current address and phone number. I mean, do we really need to know where you live? Is it that critical to your success in the workplace? I think not, and yet there it is on each and every resume that there is. How about we ditch the resume and offer a web site address, or a Twitter account, or a YouTube account name. Lets us what we have available to us, and make a resume a showcase of who we are and what we can do.
So what are you waiting for??
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