In relation to developer ‘blogs as resumes’ James Governor popped the question:
I couldn’t help thinking why are you interviewing anybody?
Vinnie Marchandani weighed in on the recurrent theme with a hilarious 10 point plan – you’ve got to have some understanding of the ‘biz’ and American politics to get some of the jokes. Looking at the link trail, I wasn’t sure whether it all kicked off with Scoble’s:
Can you believe it? A guy from one of our competitors asked me if I’d like to be considered for future positions. Then he asked me for my resume. I told him I didn’t want any job that required a resume.
I know Zoli Erdos picked it up. Again, if you have a bit of a technical bent then you should find Version 3.0 amusing – especially the upgrade notes. Sadly I’ve been self-employed for so long I’m pretty sure I’m unemployable in the traditional sense. Some have gone further – unemployable in ANY sense. Oh well. But then I turned this bit of fun on its head.
What would happen if your grad trainee candidates started saying: ‘Thanks for the invite but I will be declining the opportunity to attend your offer of an interview.’ Might that be because your firm doesn’t have a blog or worse still, it indicates you’re running an audit trainee sweat shop? Just a thought.
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