The traditional
resume is still a valuable tool in searching for employment, whether home based on in the marketplace. However, there are
alternative sources to the traditional resume.
Many persons
and businesses use resumes. The resume can serve as a tool that sums up your
professional experience. Many use it for obtaining employment but it can also
be used for acquiring new business prospects, a new position or other business
related opportunities.
This article
will provide additional information for those job seekers that may wish to
explore these alternatives to providing others with a summary of your
professional experience.
There are
quite a few professionals that find their previous experience and work in
digital space. If this is your personal experience, in place of the traditional
resume you may be interested in a Visual VC. The Visual VC Resume has the capability to obtain all of your
interactive work in digital space, bring it together and format it for
presentation in the form of a resume with link content such as Twitter, blog
posts, presentations, etc. Some users of this particular type of content add diagrams,
tables and graphs which can really spice up the subject matter of the Visual
VC.
This is
usually best when the company you are applying with is progressive enough in
technology to accept the Visual VC or when the applicant has a great deal of
his professional content in the form of digital space and the position is
related to this form of work.
A Social Resume is an excellent way to display your
work by capturing online conversations related to your professional experience.
Capturing your online conversations can display your work content, potential
and ethic in the form of a resume. This is useful depending upon what type of
position you are manufacturing your resume for. Similar in some form to the
Visual VC, the Social Resume focuses on the current content of your
professional life instead of the traditional resume that focuses on your historical
content of work experience.
This type
of resume can convey your potential instead of your experience. Showing what
you are capable of doing instead of what you have done in the past.
LinkedIn
profiles have been used in the place of traditional resumes as Social Resumes. This
provides professionals with your connections and involvement in your particular
niche or communities that you are involved in. Simply providing a LinkedIn URL
address permits you to see an element and facet of the applicant that would
otherwise be missed with a traditional resume. It is simple to update for the
applicant and easy to use.
Video resumes have also been provided. These have
recently come forth. However, making a value added video can be a make or break
for many applicants. For example, if you don’t have a lot of experience with
this form of application online, you may want to reconsider this form of
resume. You need a high quality video to present the best of yourself and your
work. Many add slide shows and other information in the video image
information.
Consider adding
this to a traditional resume as part of the package instead of a resume by
itself. This may work better for you.
The advancement
of technology has provided various opportunities and capabilities to present
your resume. With the employment marketplace saturated for many positions, you
may wish to be the one that stands out from the crowd. Be different from the
rest and leave them with the WOW factor.
If you
have the knowledge to provide a nontraditional resume, put your best foot
forward and do it.
