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Creating a Twitter Resume

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May 23, 2009 Posted By: Trevor Wilson Category: Twitter


Free Money Finance, a great blog about personal finances, recently asked its readers to create a Twitter Resume for all to see. The result was Resumes in 140 Characters or Less, a collection of 140 character resumes. After reading the results, I was impressed with what was created.

A couple of examples:

@jasonrfisher: Young, driven, innovative, technical Renaissance man helping people and business improve quality.

@The_Weakonomist: BS Finance, Financial services, investment analysis client/vendor support, data management, Access, SQL, Excel, Linux/Unix, Oracle

What I like most about this is that if you write (and Tweet) your Twitter resume on a regular basis, the power of your network may propel it directly to a recruiter! Even better, if an employer uses Twitter search to look for people with certain tangible characteristics/skills (Linux/Unix being a good example), you may just pop up.

While it will likely never replace the full resume, it’s a great addition to any New Grad‘s arsenal.

Do you have a Twitter Resume? Put @gradversity in the tweet and send it my way! I may just post it on the site.

One Response to “Creating a Twitter Resume”

  1. Twitsume says:

    Have a look at http://twitsume.com for a different take on how to create a “Twitsume”

    Create a more detailed Twitter profile for yourself and then share it with others like @gradversity

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