Yan Pritzker photographer, entrepreneur, software engineer, musician, skier

Seth Godin says: don’t bother with resumes

I really enjoyed Seth’s Blog on resumes, a well timed complement to my own blog on why you should blog. I didn’t go so far as Seth to suggest throwing out your resume (few employers are progressive enough for this, and it certainly would fail in any large company), but I think he’s definitely on the right track.

Your reputation, your public projects, your blog … these are the things that get you visibility and make having a resume extremely secondary if not entirely redundant. Resumes feed corporate machines that chew through them looking for bits of meat using keyword matching algorithms, but if you care about who you work for, and they care about who they hire, then the resume is just a formality. Both sides of the hiring equation are going to get their share of Googling done. So get out there and start making a reputation for yourself.

i get where he’s coming from.
credibility doesn’t come from a resume.
its not the proof what of you are.

i use my press kit as a type of
resume but in the end, its what you
are made up on not the words that
are on a piece of paper.