Social resume – A way to dream job

26 August, 2008 (01:00) | Help and Tips, Jobseeker, Personal Branding, Social Network, Social Resume | By: ashwin

“Find a job you love and you will never work a day in your life.” 
– Confucius

We all look for such a job but it is very difficult to get such job, not because they don’t exist but because we are not able to find it. Positions given on job boards, papers may not be what you are looking for. Enter social media. You must be using social media since long for making new friends, finding old colleagues and other purpose, but have you tried to use it for making friend. Social media has a huge potential and realizing this employers are moving now to social media to find right candidate. In order to make social media work for you it is essential that you make your resume social.

With social resume you can make employer see your resume and contact you freely. You can also add your resume on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut with our application CodeMunch and can make this platform work for you. To create social resume just create your profile (which is very easy and hardly takes 5 minute). Now you can see profile of all members, can contact them, get your resume rated and rate others resume. One most important thing is your participation on forums. The more you participate, stronger your identity is. Also you can be easily discovered because of active participation. Add this resume on your Facebook and Orkut profile and start getting your dream job opportunities from your personal network and jobs forums on facebook and orkut.

Good positions are unadvertised – you need to be in the known.