use twitter on your resume
6 CommentsOn the topic of marketing on February 19th
A few months ago I applied for a few upcoming part-time teaching positions (which I’m excited to let you know that I’ll be teaching digital portfolio class at a local college). Prior to applying, I thought my resume might be in need of a few touch-ups and additions before getting in touch with a few schools.
With a large portion of my work coming from clients I never meet face-to-face, supporters and blog readers from all over the online world, and work consisting of mostly online media, I thought it might be fun to incorporate some online interaction into my resume; invite the resume readers into my “online home” if you will.
The words “branding” and “personal branding” have been catching all the buzz in the past year or so because of services like Twitter and Facebook make it easy to monitor your brand through real interactions and word of mouth. Your customers, followers, supporters, etcetera are able to share their thoughts and feelings with you about your brand very easily. On the receiving end you are able to make adjustments if and where needed based on the feedback received.
twitter testimonials
Getting to the point: While I do tend to get both negative and positive feedback, I started favoriting (“starring”) the positive feedback I receive on Twitter and then linked it to my interactive or static PDF resume. I consider them my online testimonials! It’s also important to point out that I also jot down the negative, so I can improve later on.
A few of the resume recipients really enjoyed the idea, as it served as a pleasant creative twist on the standard testimonial and recommendations.
Jacob Cass said on February 19, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Nice idea, but the first immediate drawback I see is when you want to favourite something else, maybe a funny picture or movie, this would also come up in the feed. Unless of course you only used the favourites section for ‘testimonials’.
Brian Hoff said on February 19, 2010 @ 7:07 am
Jacob,
Of course you are right in that retrospect. Personally, I don’t favorite others. If I find something I like I bookmark for later reading. An alternative could be to create a feed of all the links for the tweets on a “testimonial” page on your website. This way the can click and read them.
Tim Smith said on February 19, 2010 @ 9:17 am
I actually think that this is a great idea. I’ll have to try this.
Sal Beas said on February 19, 2010 @ 9:55 am
Brian hi! I Agree with Shaun, Tim and yourself. I do believe it’s a brilliant Idea!! Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Eddie Gear said on March 28, 2010 @ 5:25 pm
Interesting post…. I agree with Brian, I do bookmark the links for later reading when comparing to fav the links in Twitter. I just might do a little bit more research on this to see for better options.
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Shaun Moynihan said on February 19, 2010 @ 6:49 am
Brian, this is really a great idea. While it would take forever to sort through my old tweets and favorite such comments I will definitely start doing this in the future – thanks for the tip!