Comments on: BriteTab Lets You Add Videos, Photos to Resumes http://sonyadonaldson.com/britetab-lets-you-add-videos-photos-to-resume-good-idea/ The human response to technology Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:19:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kevin http://sonyadonaldson.com/britetab-lets-you-add-videos-photos-to-resume-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-3196 Kevin Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:34:12 +0000 http://sonyadonaldson.com/?p=268#comment-3196 Discrimination from hiring managers is an understandable concern when you're dealing with any multimedia component in a resume. There are even some hiring managers who refuse to look at resumes with photos attached for fear of litigation from job seekers. One must remember, though, that the concept will evolve beyond the liberal arts students essentially forced to create them to stand out, and you'll no longer have anything to fear. In the short term, I think the online resume (along with any social media component during your job hunting) is merely intended to augment the traditional "dead tree" model. But as we see more and more students enter the workforce in a contracting labor market, they'll soon become a necessity and before long we'll be unable to remember a time without them. The bottom line: education in this country is being forced to change at a rapid pace to keep up with the multitasking real world, and as such we've evolved from a "shut up and do as you're told" mentality to one that encourages hands-on experimentation. A consequence of this is that today's students are gaining experience that isn't easily quantifiable, and an online portfolio presence using services such as BriteTab will eventually be the only realistic approach. Discrimination from hiring managers is an understandable concern when you're dealing with any multimedia component in a resume. There are even some hiring managers who refuse to look at resumes with photos attached for fear of litigation from job seekers. One must remember, though, that the concept will evolve beyond the liberal arts students essentially forced to create them to stand out, and you'll no longer have anything to fear.

In the short term, I think the online resume (along with any social media component during your job hunting) is merely intended to augment the traditional "dead tree" model. But as we see more and more students enter the workforce in a contracting labor market, they'll soon become a necessity and before long we'll be unable to remember a time without them.

The bottom line: education in this country is being forced to change at a rapid pace to keep up with the multitasking real world, and as such we've evolved from a "shut up and do as you're told" mentality to one that encourages hands-on experimentation. A consequence of this is that today's students are gaining experience that isn't easily quantifiable, and an online portfolio presence using services such as BriteTab will eventually be the only realistic approach.

]]> By: mikeydigital http://sonyadonaldson.com/britetab-lets-you-add-videos-photos-to-resume-good-idea/comment-page-1/#comment-3158 mikeydigital Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:12:05 +0000 http://sonyadonaldson.com/?p=268#comment-3158 Good post Sony! You're not wrong to be suspicious.. As a young professional myself I wouldn't personally sign up for BriteTab for that very suspicion. I actually debated whether or not to include a photo on my linkedin page. Oh well, if only we truly lived in a color blind society =) Good post Sony! You're not wrong to be suspicious.. As a young professional myself I wouldn't personally sign up for BriteTab for that very suspicion. I actually debated whether or not to include a photo on my linkedin page.

Oh well, if only we truly lived in a color blind society =)

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