Twitterviewing May be the New Resume Stefan Lopez - Jobs & Hire
go to original March 18, 2013

Have you been poring over that latest pristine copy of your resume, carefully examining any potential flaws that may be driving potential employers away? Well if Twitter is any indication, the days of resume craftsmanship may soon be long gone.

A new trend is forming wherein prospective employees are hired based off of their savvy in Twitter rather than through a conventional sit-down interview or even (gasp) an evaluation of their resume. Sometimes accomplished in as little as a couple tweets, this new hiring process is revolutionizing how people perceive the job search.

It's name? A 'twitterview', and the effects of this new hiring process could have a long-lasting effect. For one, this practice will almost assuredly lead to abominable sentences such as "all I had to do was tweet the deets at my twitterview and the job was mine #twitterviewingswag". More importantly, however, is that such a trend could spell the end for the resume's stranglehold on the hiring process.

"The paper résumé is dead," says Vala Afshar, CMO at the tech firm Enterasys Networks and current issuer of twitterviews. Afshar won't even bother with résumés. "The Web is your résumé. Social networks are your mass references."

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