It has always been hard for me to boil down my experience into a 1-page resume. After all, my years at college with all of my activities and leadership positions, my jobs and internships from the Senate to NOAA to a Non-profit cannot really be summarized to a page, can they? My life boiled down to a piece of paper that empoyers evaluate before they ever meet me.
If you are like me, you have spent hours agonizing over what goes on your resume. From the formatting to the information to include, to proof reading and customizing to the job you are applying for, it ends up being rediculous! So imagine the challenge I took on when I thought about a Tweet Resume.
We have seeen how many jobs are listed on twitter, and we know from personal experience how easy it is to re-tweet something. So why not combine these factors and create a 'Tweeteme' (ya, not sold on the name) that links to Linkedin and can be easily seen by potential employers. It is time to make social media work for us.
After many edits, and a response or two from random Twitter users who liked the idea, I tweeted out my first version:
@adamtager: Senior @AmericanU & Leg Affiars @jfederations DC. Comm/Outreach @usnoaagov OLE, Press @SenChrisDodd, RA/CM @AUHDP http://linkd.in/e0BWdD
It can use improvement, I know, but this is an experiement that I want to keep at. By attaching the handles of my organization, people viewing can see the legitimacy of those who I have worked for in the past. Beyond that, all of the experience in the Tweet is explained in depth in my Linkedin page that is linked in the tweet. I am honestly curious what I can do with this, and excited to be on the cutting edge of something that may, one day, hit a tipping point and be common practice.
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