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CAN WE USE VIDEO RESUME AND CREATIVE TACTICS TO GET JOBS YET?

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Paul Mathews-THE Career Coach-The most prudent of Human Resource Professionals discard resumes if they see your picture... ridiculous, but true. There is another way though...We talk about 3D resumes which allow for more personal branding than traditional resumes.

Social Media will change the way we apply to jobs anyway someday, but we have not yet arrived. I developed awesome (in my humble opinion) video resumes and produced them. I cannot launch them yet though because it can hurt people's chances of getting the interview because of the Fair Labor Law and seeing someone's image and frivolous lawsuits. (They did not hire me because of my age or because of my looks).

The best way I can think of to demonstrate the 3D resume and its power and how effective it is with personal branding is to compare someone's resume to the same peron's personal ad. 9 out of 10 times the HDM would hire the personal Ad and not the resume (remember, it is the same person). Why? I think because in the personal ad the individual is trying to get a date, with the resume they are JUST trying to get a job! In the personal Ad, we are "letting the audience in" and that is the 3rd demension.