Brazen Careerist just developed a Social Resume feature which allows professionals to gather all of their notable social contributions in one place for employers to see. At first glance, it reminded me of VisualCV which serves as an online resume that can showcase not only a standard resume, but your multimedia contributions and overall portfolio as well. While a Social Resume may seem like a good idea at first, one could argue that your entire online presence is your social resume. While employers would have the option to see positive items with Brazen's new feature, why would they not want to see the good, the bad and the ugly of your social presence? One search in Google and you're all theirs. Focusing on building our "social resume" through blogs, tweets, Facebook etc. is more vital. Contributing notable content to the internet on a daily basis is enough to serve as a great social resume any day. I commend them for thinking of this idea but I wonder how much value employers would truly see in it. It can be rather easy to compile and boast of our best work but in a world where information about most can be found with a click of a button, perhaps the attention needs to be focused on the bigger picture.
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March 9th, 2010 - 22:58
Hey Kate, thanks for the writeup of our new Social Resume feature. You brought up some really outstanding points and I wanted to share my perspective.
I think that the “bigger picture” is a really scary notion for employers. It would take too much time to comb through every job candidates entire online presence. Just think about all of the traditional, paper resumes from talented people that get tossed because it was too long and a hiring manager didn’t want to read it.
I hope that the value Social Resumes have for employers is that they’ll get an opportunity to see discussions, tweets, blog posts, etc. that candidates want them too see, just like a traditional resume would do with your experience.
If employers want to see the “bad, and the ugly” … well … they can dig a little deeper. Dirt digging typically doesn’t happen until they’ve narrowed down their candidates, and at that point, let the best candidate win!
Thanks again!
March 10th, 2010 - 00:29
@Ryan Thanks for responding and clarifying a bit. I like the points you made and certainly appreciate you dropping by!
March 10th, 2010 - 22:47
No problem Kate!