Update your resume with your Mashedge web guide

In a previous post, I talked about how Mashedge can be used to capture your web footprint and post it on your resume. This will help your potential employers get a first hand look at your web contributions without requiring them to dig the web in search of you.

Joel Spolsky says in his blog post Get a Job:

" I’ve always hated traditional resumes, which just don’t give the right kind of information about a candidate. If you wanted to hire an iPhone developer, would you rather know that person’s Stack Overflow stats in the iPhone tag and read their answers to technical questions? Or would you rather know where they went to college?"



Dan Schawbel ( the author of Me 2.0) talks about the same thing in Leverage Social Media for Career Success

"Social media tools are becoming mandatory for career success. They are free advertising and give you the ability to connect directly with hiring managers, entrepreneurs and recruiters, instead of applying for jobs through job boards, which are black holes. Your digital assets — blog, podcast, and social networking profiles — are your online identity and how people discover and connect with you. You have the ability to leverage one or all of these social media tools in order to present a positive image and be recruited for a position that aligns with your passion."


Dan mentions the following steps:

1. Conduct a situational analysis of where you stand in the social media
2. Unearth your personal brand
3. Select the right tools for the social media
4. Build your online empire
5. Market your brand
6. Monitor your reputation

I would add one last step: Collect your web footprint and make a Mashedge book.

After all your hard work, it's no use if your intended audience is not able to find all the important things you want them to find about you. While the search engines may be good, you have no control in how they present information about you. Besides, your potential employers will not have enough time to dig through all your contributions.

So help potential employers find out more about you easily. Pick and choose the most important ones and add them to your Mashedge web guide. Then add the link to your resume.