The Internet is my Resume

Re:The Internet is my Resume by Loic on Thursday September 22, 2011 @08:42AM (#3025844)

If the Internet is your resume, you do not own your resume and you are going to be doomed. You need to own your identity and your resume[0]. This can be as simple as having your own homepage with links to your GitHub, SF.net, Google+, whatever account, but it must be in the first results when searching for your name.

[0]: http://www.marco.org/2011/07/11/own-your-identity

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by dpritchett on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:01AM (#3026284)

Chris Brogan (and patio11 for that matter) is a pretty vocal champion of this concept. Puff up your (personal) brand wherever you go, but always link back to and maintain control of your stronghold. A company/personal blog on your own domain is the natural spot for that.

http://www.chrisbrogan.com/using-outposts-in-your-media-stra...

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by patio11 on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:53AM (#3026470)

I don't get Github profiles as resume enhancers. They're impossible for many decision makers to navigate, optimized for reading code rather than supporting the decision to hire you, and make you look like a commodity coder on a site full of talented commodity coders.

If I were to have a hire-me page, I might link to code on Github, but it would be supporting documentation that no one would actually read after they got through my five minute hire-me spiel.

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by tptacek on Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:16PM (#3026570)

Even if you read code naturally, fishing out individual contributions from a Github page is a chore; there are lots of things people can do on Github that will make them appear at first glance to be productive and important.

Lots of applicants give us Github links, and while I'm very happy to have them (please include them), I still have to look at the list of projects and figure out "is this his project, or is it a project he just likes and follows; are these his commits, or is he just backporting someone else's patch" &c &c.

I can't imagine how a hiring manager dev who hasn't used Github before could be expected to make decisions from it.

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by shabda on Thursday September 22, 2011 @12:38PM (#3026650)

A forked github project shows the same number of forks as the original, but each fork starts its number of watchers at 1. Easy way to see if you "own" a project or just have forked it.

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by tptacek on Thursday September 22, 2011 @01:08PM (#3026781)

I agree that it's easy to figure out. It's just not automatic.

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by dpritchett on Thursday September 22, 2011 @11:57AM (#3026487)

Well sure, but you've got quantifiable product/market successes. For someone in a more one-dimensional role the spiel might not be as easy. Some folks really just want to be a dev on a team of devs, and github is a great starting point for a technical interview.

You're right though, github doesn't optimize its presentation for the resume use case. There's plenty of room for other startups (see my Work for Pie plug elsewhere in the thread) to take that information and package it especially for hiring managers. StackOverflow Careers does a bit of that, too.

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Re:The Internet is my Resume by alinajaf on Thursday September 22, 2011 @01:00PM (#3026747)

In isolation it's useless but if you've put some work into crafting your online presence (i.e. a homepage with a blog, an up to date linkedin profile and a few choice code samples on github), then IME it makes a good impression pre-interview.

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