Originally Posted By cubicle17

Why bother having a resume?

cubicle17:

Seth Godin brings the interesting:

This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all. Not just for my little internship, but in general. Great people shouldn’t have a resume.

Radical? Maybe, but nonetheless interesting.

In the past, I’ve balked at applying for jobs I know I’d be good at because I didn’t have X on my resume. In hindsight, this was stupid since most of the things I didn’t have could be learned over a weekend. Lesson learned, I suppose.

The only problem I see with Seth’s suggestions is that most places require you to submit a resume, but he has a good rebuttal to that in the article:

Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the corporate behemoth. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?

Hear hear.

maybe losing my resume is the key to getting my sweet, dream job… 

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