What do you think of video resumes?
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M$8 Answers
Its not appropriate for office type jobs.
One thing I don't like about video, and this includes pictures, is that it gives the ability for someone to apply prejudice when you haven't even been given a chance to see them face to face.
Someone might not like you because you are male or female, you are white/black/yellow or brown, they don't like the way you look etc.
Apparently this doesn't apply in countries like Brazil, where its customary to provide a picture along with a resume. (an executive was expecting a resume from someone but never received it, it turns out it was being rejected because of the picture!)
If you want to be creative, perhaps you could make your resume stand out in such a way that it might apply to the specific employer you are applying to. So if you apply to a paint manufacturer, you might want to give them a paint can that's designed with your resume.
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What if the videos go by the unspoken web law of keeping under 2 min. in length? Web videos (read: online news highlights) are supposed to stay under 3 minutes because people sitting at their computer just don't have the attention span to watch more and can immediately click off. A video resume would, after all, be a highlights reel of your education/work life, right?
Don't get me wrong, it isn't that I personally think it isn't a good idea or something we won't be seeing more of in the future, but right now I don't think it is effective at all.
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Going to throw this out there - assuming they are accepted (far off future), what about for college apps? Or even grad school apps?
The problem with video resumes is that not only do hiring managers want to spend way way less than 2 minutes looking at it they also want to be able to write notes on the resume (for themselves and for a later interview) and want to be able to easily pass it around.
What format would you even submit a video resume in? There is no way someone is going hunting for the right codec to play it and many places block youtube and other video sites so those are also out of the question.
When I say that this will be more common in the distant future I see it as clicking on your facebook picture will show a video resume for employers to see and not something that you give to them in place of a traditional resume.
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Great answer. You essentially hit on all the points I thought of. I'm not looking to send in a video resume for anything any time soon, but I thought of creating them for other people. Didn't know how successful that would be though.