by Randall CraigFiled in: Blog, Make It Happen TipsheetTagged as: Digital Strategy
Look at your LinkedIn profile: does it bear any resemblance to your CV? For most people, a LinkedIn profile far surpasses paper: Paper can’t compete with connections, recommendations, endorsements, , groups, status updates and more. With the momentum clearly online, will your paper resume die? Or is it already dead?
The answer is no, for several reasons. A paper resume, whether printed or in PDF format, has three key functions:
1) It forces you to think (“what have I done, what is the impact”), to codify your experience, and document the question: “what am I built for.” There isn’t a draft mode in Social Media, and you can’t pass around different versions of your LinkedIn profile for feedback.
2) The paper resume is the source for the content that you repurpose into online social venues and job search sites: some document, somewhere, needs to be the master document and archive. After all, what would happen if LinkedIn shut down, or started making key capability only available to paid users?
3) The paper resume will always be used in the “last mile” of the recruitment process. It will be reviewed when choosing the short list, and it is integral in a face-to-face interview.
Nevertheless, social recruitment is becoming more important. Consider these three trends:
This week’s action item: It’s not just resumes that have been disrupted by the social web. Consider your organization’s brochures and marketing collateral. This week, look at your organization’s real-world material, and consider what needs to happen to make it relevant online.
Career insight: Resumes actually are dead. Or rather, they are only part of the picture. They share, retrospectively, what you have accomplished. They cannot share how you think. Consider, for example, two candidates for a role, whose accomplishments on the resume seem about the same. But one has hundreds of highly relevant and thoughtful blog posts, and one who has not: who would you hire?
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