The paperless resume

So, we all know the importance and Web 2.0, the social media press release and new internet tools that PR pros should use to send out that important client message.

During my recent online quest to find out as much information as I can about the social media press release, I stumbled upon some more paperless ways to communicate a message. This time however, it is the PR pro communicating him or her self: the social media resume, or the new paperless resume.

In a blog by Bryan Person, some guy who works for monster.com, his reaction to the new social media resume “declares the death of the traditional resume” and he explains that using social media resumes provides so many things paper resumes don’t.

So how does this social media resume work and what can it provide?

According to blogger Christopher Penn who coined the term social media resume, start by using a blog that offers everything a traditional resume would. In his sample resume online, hosted by googlepages, Penn starts off with his welcome message as a video from youtube and provides a biography, contact information, links, a gallery of work and paper resumes available in pdf.

Believe it or not, it is time for the social media resume and the death of the traditional resume has come. Just like the social media press release, this resume is up-to-date, provides more information, is easy for the readers to view, will evolve over time and is environmentally friendly.

Good bye paper, hello social media resume.