I believe all of you guys have written your resume at least once.
How was your resume writing? How do you think your resume is?
Was it interesting enough for yourself to read yours?
Well… I wouldn’t say job recruiters would love to read tons of resumes, which are not even different from each other.
Due to this problem, some people have brought up a brilliantly creative idea…
It was making a VIDEO RESUME!!
I guess most of you guys have seen some of those resumes on YouTube, My Space, or things like them. I, too, could take a look at several video resumes. Although some of them looked dumb, they were interesting enough to get my attention.
So… I want to talk about “Pros/Cons” of video resumes. I’d love to get your additional opinion on this as your comments.
"PROS"
1. Get much more attention of recruiters than paper resume
2. Make recruiters feel “I want to talk to him in person”
3. At least, demonstrate the ability to make video.
"CONS"
1. Difficult to make it well
2. Could make recruiters waste more time than when they just read resumes
3. Plant unpleasant impression into recruiters regardless of original intention
Of course, you guys can think of them much more than this. So, just let me know…
By the way, while watching video resumes, it just came to my mind that if we don’t have capability to make “video” resume, how about "POWER POINT" resume, in order to make a little difference?
Since the weakest point of paper one is boring, it would be good idea make it as a “Slide Show”. And. to make it better, it should be good to add our canned voice to our resume and let watchers to follow it with our voice.
Wait, it just struck me that if video resume is generalized or even required sometime later, what would be the next form of resume after video one???
It seems to get harder and harder to satisfy recruiter. Haha…
Anyway…
I’ve attached 3 video resumes URL, which have different characteristics from each other.
Have fun with them, and if any of you guys have made something like this, let me check it out!! =D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZqgXrlSEA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL1mUuYAPkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rAKA7enbwY
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- Sang Min
- I would like to refer to myself as "Always Learner". To this end, I have studied abroad at American University since Fall 2006, coming from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea.
9 comments:
I have never thought of the video resume!!! It was totally new idea for me, and. I enjoyed watching them. But……….. I really do not want to make my video resume. The biggest problem is audience of the video resume. If people, working in the company that I want to enter, didn’t watch my video resume, nothing would happen. So I will send my resume only to the company if there was one company that I want to enter. I do not want to show all companies and all people in the world my video resume to get one job. I like the idea of the video resume, but I think we don’t necessarily have to upload video resumes onto the Internet.
I totally agree with that.
Just like we send our resumes to recruiters via email, we could send our video resume as well.
We don't have to post ours on internet, as they did.
But, if we want to show our video resumes on internet, some recruiters might be interested in contacting us, even before we express our own interest to them.
I think video resume is good idea. It will express yourself better than usual paper. Recruiters can get the information which will usually be gained through interview, such as applicant's personality and appearance.
However, it may be difficult situation for us. We can't pretend to have great personality on paper anymore. We have to be a good actor to be looked great person
You're right, Ryo.
We need to become good actor to make an impressive video resume.
But thankfully, it might not be that difficult. Let us think the situation of a networking reception. I think it's pretty much similar to being in front of the camera.
I'm really not sure about the video resume idea. I think paper resume is much better is has a standard formats and most of the time it is easy to read. When I read someone resume I go directly the places that interest me such as education and experiences then if I like what I read go farther to read the other things in the resume.
Yes, Majid.
That's why I said video resume takes recruiters more time to evaluate it.
In other words, in the perspective of recruiters, if the video resume is really good, they can get talented people, whereas if it is not really good, they just waste more time.
Wow. it's nice idea.
I am sure that it apeals to recruiters.
But, as you said in blog, video
resume has some difficulties and problems.
Therefore, I want to use video resume for optional information of mine.
When I visited internet job applying site of some comapnies, many of them required a resume file, a cover letter file, and optional file. I only thought that grade transcript or paper for optional files, but video resume is the most interesting and great source for optional file!!!
However,to make a good video resume, I need to learn some tips of making movie files. :)
-Jiyong Choi
Yes, Jiyong.
I agree that video resume is "optional" at this point. And as I keep mentioning, we cannot surely say every recruiter will like video format.
In my opinion, video format might be powerful for a position which requires creativity.
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