Find this in a resume!

Scoble created a bit of a firestorm with his post last week about not applying for jobs which required old fashioned resumes. His blog is his resume.

So many of today's recruiting tools are tired. People have learned to "game" resumes - inflate their capabilities and use key words to get through resume scanning software.  Reference calls have been castrated by attorneys to mostly yes/no answers. Interviews are often better indicators of a person's confidence and social skills, more than their competence. If blogs can provide more insight into a person, why not? With the cost of a web presence down to a few dollars a year, and far flung ability to create digital content and other IP, soon we will be wondering about recruits who cannot showcase either.

Naysayers point to the juvenile stuff kids post on MySpace.com as indicator that blogs will only show negative aspects of a recruit. I like to think more recruits, would like Roman, draw up a strength/weakness matrix as he suggests and their blogs show more of their passion, positions and competence. Not too many resumes today which show this level of self-analysis....