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Since diving into the world of social media I’ve had countless inspired ideas and conversations about business, entrepreneurship, Generation Y and more. I’ve also been able to create some amazing connections and relationships based on these conversations. What I’ve realized is that the social media tools we use every day give us the power to be known for our ideas. It’s pretty amazing stuff.
The only problem is that all of these great ideas get lost in the shuffle of real time status updates, endless blog archives, and short attention spans. If I wanted to show someone what my online persona was all about, I would have to dig up a bunch of old links and point them all over the internet. It works, but it’s certainly not efficient.
Today, we launched Social Resumes to combat this problem and to make your everyday use of social media truly useful for your career.
A Social Resume is the first of its kind, active, live resume that lets you showcase your top ideas from around the web and share them in one convenient place. It’s a resume that highlights your thoughts and future plans as much as your past experience.
Thousands of people are already engaging in conversations and feeding blog posts and tweets into their Brazen Careerist profiles. Now you can scan all of this activity, determine what best represents your professional brand, and add it directly to your Social Resume. If you don’t want to dig through old posts or you have some great ideas that aren’t on Brazen Careerist yet, you can go directly to your Social Resume and add a top idea in the box provided.
Here’s a screen shot of my Social Resume to illustrate:
We’ve been beta testing Social Resumes for the past week, and I’m already blown away by the ideas people are sharing and the different ways everyone is using their Social Resume.
Emily Jasper browsed through her activity and added her blog post “Hi My name is Emily and I’m pro corporate” as one of her top ideas. People can now go directly to Emily’s Social Resume to read all 12 comments and join the conversation right there.
Dale Beermann took a different angle and decided to enter some ideas directly into his Social Resume. Dale’s #3 top idea says,
“Engineering is only a means to determine and achieve a particular goal, not the goal in and of itself.”
He makes a great point.
Ellen Nordahl took an even different approach. Ellen gave a quick explanation of one of her favorite blog posts, “Starting over in the same city” and then linked directly to the post. Readers can now visit Ellen’s blog to join the conversation, or leave a comment on her Social Resume.
The coolest thing about your Social Resume is that it can be used however you choose. You have 10 chances to show the world the ideas that best compliment your traditional resume and represent your professional brand.
Traditional resumes show people your experience; what you’ve done, where you’ve worked and what you’ve accomplished. This is all useful information, but it doesn’t provide any insight into how you think or what you plan to do in the future. You show the world these things every day when you engage in conversations online. Now you have a place to showcase it all.
To learn more about Social Resume’s and see a tutorial video on how to use them, check out our Social Resume reference page.
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Comments
03.09.10
Fascinating concept, I'm interested to see how people (both employees and employers) adapt and adopt it.
03.09.10
This is a great, forward-thinking idea, Ryan. Impressed with the fact that since we are more right now as opposed to waiting, the social resume fits the bill perfectly. I'll be creating my own social resume. Great work!
03.09.10
Thanks, guys! Glad to hear you both like the concept, I'm looking forward to seeing how it catches on and what kinds of ideas people come up with.
03.09.10
What I love about this, is that it's fresh and a really cool concept.
03.09.10
So fantastic! I love this "curated" realtime resume. Definitely going to check it out, and get some content loaded in!
03.09.10
Thanks, Jenn and Jenn! Im looking forward to seeing your Social Resumes.
@Jenn S I love that you picked up on the "curated" theme we were going for with these.
03.09.10
Thanks, Ryan. I think the curate-ability of this feature will make it a killer feature for BC - well done!
03.09.10
Awesome stuff Ryan, thinktanks are always beneficial especially in resume critique.
You also spoke about the countless ideas you have in the beginning of your post. Where do they all go? I am a very creative person and, at current have over 100 domains, and 10 strong business models. How do you decide which ones to move forward on, and better yet is there an optimum way of planning in the background, while not taking up too much time for your current project? I know it's off topic but reading that line sparked my question.
03.09.10
Thanks for the post Ryan.
Maybe I am missing something here, but between my Google Profile and Google Buzz conversations, might I not already have a Social Resume?
Also, I would be VERY interested in seeing the rate and timeline of adoption by hiring managers and recruiters/sourcers of Social Resumes. And, how do you capture the info on a Social Resume into one of those dinosaur-like things called Applicant Tracking Systems that everyone still seems to be using?
I LOVE this stuff- it's getting the culture transformation going which is the tough part.
03.10.10
@Andrew - Great question, one of the problems is where do you put all of these ideas so 1) you don't lose them and 2) other people can see the ones you want them to see. That was our thought process behind the concept of our Social Resumes. Hopefully, you start putting them all on your Social Resume. As far as planning goes, I try to leave it at just jotting down notes. If you can't focus on what you're doing full time, its not going to work. The other ideas can wait.
@Suzy - Good points. Your Google profile and Google Buzz conversations are just like conversations you have on any other network, they get lost after a few days. Sure, people can really dig to go find them but that's a lot of work, and most people probably won't take the time to go past the first 1 or 2 links they see. I'm also very interested to see the adoption rate of hiring managers and recruiters etc. Obviously as the product matures, we'll need to address issues like capturing info in ATS's. We already have some thoughts but the real challenge now is to get the word out!
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