Looking for more CEO resume tweets

In other words, there's no example of someone *actually* getting a job based on a 140-character resume. It's just for comic effect...

Jon, I look at it mostly as a foot-in-the-door, but there is counterevidence in the comments:

Aaron Strout
May 29, 2008 10:54 AM

astrout: @stevbaker Social Media Guru that pioneered hiring 2.0 and does not have Twitter resume, but hired employee this way. Note to self - get resume.

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Warning ... this is totally off-topic.

I just read Mr. Baker's article on Blogging in BW's 6/2 edition, and was not sure how else to send a "Letter to the Editor" to him, since that appears to have disappeared in the print version ...

The "blogging" medium is not just for casual social networking, nor just for business applications.

Indeed, it is also quite effective within the political arena as well.

Six months ago, our city (Upper Arlington, Ohio) Council took a dictatorial approach towards outsourcing our trash collection service. What started as a grass roots effort to enable residents to vote on it (via petition for referendum) has become a movement by which information can be collected and disseminated to all residents. Indeed, www.uatrash.org has as its most frequent visitor the city itself, monitoring daily performance of the contractor that was brought in.

The Internet, and "blogging" in particular, is truly "the great equalizer." The challenge is making sure that the data/information presented is accurate and can be backed up in a fashion similar to the standards held by journalists. Otherwise, all of it becomes a farce.

:-)

Vicki -- yes, the political angle has been looked into as well, by some other publications. I'm not sure how blogging *in particular* fits into the picture from your uatrash.org website, but I'd be interested in hearing more.

Steve -- It still sounds like you are scrounging for facts to fit the story here. I looked up "Aaron Strout" and "Hiring 2.0" using that 10-year old technology called Google.

And I learn 2 things: One, Strout's description of hiring 2.0 places *much* greater emphasis on having others giving references to you via LinkedIn. On the US News regurg of this piece, a recruiter writes: "LinkedIn has quickly become a predominate recruiting tool for the staffing world. I use it every day in my role as a senior recruiter for a major corporation."

Two, the careers page for Mzinga (where Strout is hiring) says: "If you're interested in joining our team, forward your resume to Careers@mzinga.com."

Preach, practice.

Steve - thanks for the shout out!

Jon - thanks for you looping me in via Twitter. A couple of quick thoughts here:

1) In my original post for "Hiring in a 2.0 World", I specifically stated that no e-mail was allowed (at least up front) and I only suggested Google in the event that someone wasn't comfortable approaching me via Twitter/FB. However, the most viable candidates ended up coming to me through Twitter first, then either LI or FB second (one person blogged).

2) Regarding the inclusion of the "Careers@mzinga.com" reference, that was in a follow up post that I did in doing some recruiting for a colleague. She is hiring in a more traditional way but she saw the power of what I was doing "2.0 style" and asked me to broadcast her job posting through my Twitter network. To that end, I got three pretty decent candidates for her position via Twitter. I've also had several other folks come to me via Twitter regarding community manager positions.

Best,
Aaron | @astrout

Aaron-- thanks for the update. It seems sensible that someone a person seeking a social media job would use social media. Someone recruiting for any other job would likely more rely on a reputational service like LinkedIn.

Eric Schmidt: Imperator of World Information, Chair/CEO Google, Board Apple, Princeton Trustee, BSEE/MS/CS/PhD EECS with dissertation

Steve, just tweeted this to you but here's my go at what Hillary Clinton's Twitter resume might look like: "Uncanny ability to turn 140 characters +2 supercharacters into the 160 characters I need to tweet this resume... or at least try"

Jon ...

Do you have references or links that deal with the use of blogging for political purposes?

I'd be interested in expanding my application to incorporate more creative/effective tools/techniques.

Thanks!