Comments on: Forget Resumes, Focus on Ideas

By: Brazen Careerist Launches Social Resumes – WebWorkerDaily

Brazen Careerist Launches Social Resumes – WebWorkerDaily — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:02:40 +0000

[...] No Comments 0 Following Brazen Careerist’s focus on promoting its members’ ideas, rather than their resumes, the site has rolled out a social resume tool. It creates an active [...]

By: Resume Writing Tips To Help You Land Your Next Job « GigAlert.com Blog

Resume Writing Tips To Help You Land Your Next Job « GigAlert.com Blog — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:40:18 +0000

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By: WorkScore: A Social Resume « I.T News & Stuff

WorkScore: A Social Resume « I.T News & Stuff — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:26:26 +0000

[...] employers don’t place a lot of credence on traditional resumes: even a completely truthful resume may not provide a clear impression of a prospective employee’s abilities and skills. WorkScore, which launches today, is a system that allows you to gather documentation and [...]

By: WorkScore: A Social Resume

WorkScore: A Social Resume — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:01:09 +0000

[...] don’t place a lot of credence on traditional resumes: even a completely truthful resume may not provide a clear impression of a prospective employee’s abilities and skills. WorkScore, which launches today, is a system that allows you to gather documentation and [...]

By: Closing on the Big Deal – A Job | Better Closer | Sales Improvement

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:53:52 +0000

[...] Ideas are More Important than Resumes (hat tip: WWD). The resume seems to be going the way of the dinosaur. It is still showing up as a standard format [...]

By: larryheard

larryheard — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:04:26 +0000

Question now is how do you standardize this idea. I do agree with Trunk but how could you define it in a way that everyone would get it?

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:17:59 +0000

Sorry you feel that way, Will. I guarantee that this is not an “advertorial” – if we ran anything like that we’d make it very clear in the post. I thought Trunk’s ideas were interesting – I don’t necessarily completely agree with them, but I do agree that the traditional career tools (resumes, etc) will become less relevant as the way that we work changes.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:17:59 +0000

Why does this entry come across more as an advertorial than an actual blog post?

By: resume ideas

resume ideas — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:55:26 +0000

I see the gist of the opinion and kind of agree to it. What she’s saying is to concentrate on the motive of the resume rather than the resume itself. And logically speaking, the motive is to convince the recruiter of an idea.