The dawn of the video resume

It’s inevitable that job seek­ers and grad­u­at­ing stu­dents will use more sophis­ti­cated meth­ods in their job search. Case in point: the video resume.

I see more and more under­grad­u­ates who edit their own videos — it’s as easy and nat­ural for them do so as writ­ing a paper.

I assume that some peo­ple got the idea of a video resume from Elle Woods in the movie Legally Blonde. In 2001, this was good for a laugh. In 2010, thanks to YouTube, blog­ging and Flash, the video resume may become an essen­tial job search tool.

A quick Google search on “video resume” pro­duced over 123,000 results.

Brian Krueger’s brief piece on video resume eti­quette has some basic, com­mon sense tips that are helpful.

A 26 March 2008 arti­cle arti­cle from Edu­ca­tion Por­tal called Job Resumes 2.0: Cre­at­ing a Video Resume has many more tips.

Finally, About.com has its own page on video resume tips, includ­ing production.

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