Monday, October 22, 2007
QuintCareers article on blogs as resumes
FEATURE ARTICLE: USE YOUR BLOG AS A RESUME?
PART I: PROS AND CONS
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Editor’s note: This article is the first of two parts.
Part II provides tips and examples for using a blog as a resume.
Through the use of a variety of online tools -- blogs, wikis,
social-networking sites, portfolios, podcasts, Youtube videos,
and more -- individuals, especially younger people, are socially
constructing their identities in ways unimagined a dozen or so years
ago.
Where a dedicated careerist of old constructed a job-seeking
identity through a resume and a few other printed materials
disseminated to audiences that seem puny by today’s standards,
postmillennial upwardly mobile types are establishing their career
identities to vast global audiences using the tools of the so-called
Web 2.0, defined in part by Web guru Tim O’Reilly as comprising
an "architecture of participation." The concept of Web 2.0 “suggests
that everyone ... can and should use digital media to express and
realize themselves,” writes Andrew Keen in The Daily Standard.
Our full article at
http://www.quintcareers.com/job-seeker_blog_resume.html
considers the pros an cons of the blog as resume.
PART I: PROS AND CONS
by Katharine Hansen, Ph.D.
Editor’s note: This article is the first of two parts.
Part II provides tips and examples for using a blog as a resume.
Through the use of a variety of online tools -- blogs, wikis,
social-networking sites, portfolios, podcasts, Youtube videos,
and more -- individuals, especially younger people, are socially
constructing their identities in ways unimagined a dozen or so years
ago.
Where a dedicated careerist of old constructed a job-seeking
identity through a resume and a few other printed materials
disseminated to audiences that seem puny by today’s standards,
postmillennial upwardly mobile types are establishing their career
identities to vast global audiences using the tools of the so-called
Web 2.0, defined in part by Web guru Tim O’Reilly as comprising
an "architecture of participation." The concept of Web 2.0 “suggests
that everyone ... can and should use digital media to express and
realize themselves,” writes Andrew Keen in The Daily Standard.
Our full article at
http://www.quintcareers.com
considers the pros an cons of the blog as resume.
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I had a major role in that discussion in the comments on Daworski's blog. But she didn't mention me. Why?
# posted by 
: October 22, 2007 at 9:24 AM
: October 22, 2007 at 9:24 AM
I couldn't mention everyone; the article was already quite long, and I felt your view (opposing the idea of blogs as resumes) was already represented.
# posted by : October 23, 2007 at 8:05 AM
: October 23, 2007 at 8:05 AM
Even with the advent of blogs, linkedin, facebook, etc. the resume printed on a sheet of paper will remain the primary mode of screening applicants for an advertised position opening in any organization. The afore-mentioned mediums may be utilized for further screening but resumes are here to stay for quite some time.
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