I’m not the biggest fan of video resumes. While it’s becoming super-easy to create, publish and share video online, I just don’t think video resumes will ever take off. Video may one day be a great compliment to a persons resume but it will never replace it. LinkedIn. Thats another story.
Video resumes are too scary for employers concerned with ofccp regulation and eeoc. Watching a video is an inefficient means for gathering information. It can take over 3 minutes for a recruiter to get the information he/she needs from a video resume. Video resumes throw too big of a kink in the recruiting process to ever make an impact.
They aren’t making anything better for the candidate either. I have yet to see one video resume that compliments the candidates job search. Too often the candidate does a poor job on communicating what he/she brings to the table, is less attractive, less funny and more awkward than he/she thinks. A company called Cynopsis Media may disagree.
Linkedin on the other hand is much more likely to replace the standard resume. In fact, you can already see the word ‘LinkedIn’ becoming synonymous with resumes like ‘Google’ has with Internet search.
I recently overhead heard a girl on the street in nyc talking to a friend. She mentioned that she had sent the recruiter her, ‘LinkedIn.’ She never said the word, ‘resume.’
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