Future Job Seekers May Need a Video Resume

Posted on March 2, 2007

Time Magazine reports that job sites are jumping on the idea of everyone one day needing a video resume.

So who will be the YouTube of video resumes? Jobster, an online job board, is teaming up with social-networking site Facebook to launch a career site featuring video resumes in March. Vault.com another job board, concluded its first video-resume contest last week, its prize a shot at (what else?) an investment-banking job. Smaller players 62ndview, HireVue and Resumevideo are all launching widely this spring. Workplace bloggers speculate that YouTube plans to start its own video-resume channel, although the company is noncommittal. Says Jason Goldberg, CEO of Jobster: "I can see a day when video as part of the resume is the norm."

The downside of video resumes is that they could be used for discrimination. Time says so far no lawsuits over video resumes have been filed. Another downside is that your video could end up places where you did not intend like YouTube. Remember what happened to Aleksey Vayner's video resume. Some people don't appear to be the least bit concerned about where their video resume goes. There are thousands of video resumes on YouTube. A search for resume brings thousands of results.