No more resumes
After talking to Stephen Collins last week about recruitment and recruitment companies I’ve come to the same opinion that resumes are dead. I poked around with Resolio last year but that project seems to have been abandoned - the Resolio blog hasn’t been updated in a year. I had a recruitment company call me a few weeks back asking for an updating resume for their system.
No.
From now on, my profile on LinkedIn is going to be my primary resume and CV, list of experience, previous roles and references/recommendations. If you want to know what I’m doing now, what I’ve done and what I might be interested then you can go there. That is always up to date … rather than having multiple out-of-date versions of resumes floating around in half a dozen recruiter’s databases.
Additionally, you can verify my experience and standing in the web community via my blog, mentions in other people’s blogs and articles, media, cross-references, forum posts and social networks and contacts. Much more value there than a lifeless 3-page resume that’s obsolete within a month.
Sorry if you feel I’m forcing you to use a system that you haven’t adopted yet - and if you as a recruiter can’t make that change then there are other companies that I know of who have contacted me after having viewed my LinkedIn profile and other web presences who will happily take over from you and leave you behind in the dark ages.
I’m not saying I’ll never write or prepare a resume ever again - I’m sure there are going to be cases where I will have to go through an entire recruitment process for a role, which involves submitted a job application including response to selection criteria and a CV … I hope I don’t have to do that ever again, but I won’t rule it out.








