I’m sure like so many people I used to keep a résumé up-to-date but no longer.  I don’t think with social media and blogging that we need them today.  The traditional résumé was a document which gave a history of the skills you posses, the jobs you’ve held, some banter about where I went to school and maybe a bit about the things I like to do when I am not working.

The traditional résumé seems like something I did a dozen years ago but not today.  Do you?  I write a blog, it has an About Me page, in fact you are reading it now.  I also keep a LinkedIn profile updated with new skills and that profile pulls in content from sites such as Twitter.  The profile also shows the interests I have by the groups I belong, both professional and personal.

So why do I or anyone else for the matter need to keep a résumé updated?  I think all of the relevant information can be had right on the Internet with much more dynamic content than a résumé in Word document format.

I laugh when I approach someone about a project and they ask me for one.  I mean, seriously, do you really want one?  Do you really expect me to have one or is this just a test to see if I am hip enough for your project?  Or is that just a reflex from job interviews of a long time ago.

We can do better, stop the résumé madness now.  

It’s all in good fun, I know some people don’t even know what LinkedIn is, don’t care about blogs or Twitter but a good number of us do.