Social Resume

Social Resume: It might sound like a new concept, but it is all about using professional resume in such a way so as to make it social. Social networking sites are developing at very fast rate. So are the applications used on them. Development of social networking sites provides an oppportunity to showcase our skills and strengths and share it with world.

Now there are applicaitons which enables to show resume on social networking sites. When anyone look at profile, then along with profile, resume is also visible. This provides an opporunity to employer to know about candidate which is not possible in telephonic interview and also to know that candidate is saying truth or not. It provides opportunity to candidate to identify and grab the opportunity hanging around in the network, which is else difficult.

Socail Resume can be used to showcase technical, academic and project expertise and achievements along with their personal information. The information shared here is much easy to verify from the people in network as compared to traditional ways.It is different from job portal as they provides resume only to recruiter and no one else can see it, this is not case with social resume.

There are sites such as CodeMunch which is working on social resume. Its application Myresume integrated with social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook, Hi5 etc. is one such example. With the fast and continuous expansion of social networking sites lets hope that other application which use social resume come soon.