Today people have shared with me some educational things that have got me going. The first is an article that makes the argument comparing the way the US reacts to military failures versus educational failures. In sum, if the military fails, we don't blame the soldiers, we blame the administration and call for more support, tools, different strategy, etc while educational failures are blamed on "bad teachers". God forbid we ever blame the parents...oh *gasps* the students!
The second is from the creators of South Park about carrot sticks, which ties in nicely with a CNN article about graduating with a [useless] degree and realizing there is no place for you in today's economy except probably your parents' house.
It's a good day for reading,folks!
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Thursday, July 2, 2009
Video Resumes
I recently made the analogy that trying to find a teaching job, or any job for that matter these days, is rife with rejection and if I was going to face so much rejection, I rather be an actress because the payoff is much more substantial. I know there are billions of paper resumes out there that have never seen the light of day.
And why should they? No one is reading them.
But like all dying practices, survival is dependent on adaptiveness. That phenomenon has reached the unemployed. CBS aired a segment over TWO YEARS ago about video resumes. If you search "resume" on You Tube, you received about 37,000 results; on Yahoo, 379,000,000. And there are STILL some businesses that require a 1-2 page printed application with resume attachment optional.
So here's the issue: are employers going to see this as a faster, more authentic way to screen potential workers and thus embrace it, or are employees, given the economic plumment, force this method on employers to break out of the paper-pack?
I smell a new type of worker revolution brewing....and it smells like Flash!
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