Ce sera peut-être une tendance du futur. Celle de faire son « elevator pitch » en 140 caractères ou moins. C’est en fait le défi trouvé sur BusinessWeek via un Twitt de Monster. Envoyez un curriculum vitae de 140 caractères pour la chance d’être l’un des blogueurs de BW. Ils appellent ça un « resuwitters » que je traduirais par un curiculumtwitter (elle était facile).
Ce n’est pas tout, quoi qu’encore « sur la frange » cette idée de mise en contact par média sociaux avec l’interdiction d’envoyer un CV complet a déjà été mise en pratique par Jason Falls de Socialmediaexplorer qui voulait un gestionnaire marketing par média sociaux. Après la description traditionnelle de ce qu’il recherchait via son blogue, voici d’autres instructions inusitées :
HERE’S HOW YOU GET THE JOB
1. Don’t send me resumes. Connect with me. I’m easy to find.
2. Give me an elevator pitch on why you are the person we’ve described.
3. Send me (via whatever electronic method you deem most efficient) a short list of what you’ve done and where I can find evidence of it. Or have a full profile on LinkedIn. It’s easier that way.
4. If your profiles are hard to link to you on social media sites, tell me which are yours and what you’re hiding.
5. Understand this will be a competitive search and I’m hiring one person. Be outstanding.
Dans une entrevue à Socialmediahunter
2) Did you get better resumes from job postings or from your blog and other social media avenues?
Most definitely from the blog and social media avenues. However, I expressly said in my posting that I didn't want resumes. We also pointed all of our official job postings (LinkedIn, Louisville AdFed, etc.) back to my blog post, so most people who reached out about the job got what we were shooting for. Thankfully, I only got a couple of real resumes, which were immediate rejections, of course. If you're online and you connect with me about the job, your LinkedIn profile and a Google search is really all I need.
) What was the most common error that candidates made in applying to this position?
4) In looking through resumes/url's, what caught your eye in determining who got an interview?
Entrepreneurial spirit in social media activity. If you had a blog, managed a community, did web video just for fun or to figure it out … anything that said you were exploring, learning and doing. One young man, who I ultimately interviewed, built his own Ning community around doing video resumes so each profile was, in essence, a LinkedIn profile but all geeked out with multimedia. I thought that was particularly cool. Plus, seeing a three minute video on who he is and why he's passionate about social media told me almost everything I needed to know about assessing his want and ability to do the job. (Ultimately, he did not get the job, but was a finalist and is someone I'm very happy to know and keep an eye on)
Votre présence Web, si elle est efficace, doit pouvoir déjà parler de vous intelligemment et abondamment, l’idée d’une candidature de 140 caractères ou moins, devient donc vraiment possible et même souhaitable. Ça devrait couper beaucoup de blabla inutile, mais aussi créer du temps supplémentaire afin de visiter tous les lieux de votre présence Web.
