Share Your Resume Revision History with Google Docs

Is the world ready for resume revision histories?

Imagine using Google Docs to write your resume. It's not a bad choice since you don't have to worry about losing it in a hard drive crash. Just login to your Google Docs account, make a few updates, and send off a current resume to whoever you'd like.

In most cases, people today would save off a .pdf or .rtf version for emailing, print it, or copy/paste it into the body of an email.

But what about this: how about just inviting someone to your resume instead? Not only could they view your current resume, they could review the revision history of the Google Doc to see how your resume has changed over time:

Would this be valuable?

It seems like it could add an additional layer of authenticity to your resume since people could see exactly how your resume has evolved over time. This could obviously backfire on people who play a little loose with the facts on their resume, but that would mean there are even more benefits to those who are comfortable doing this.

Resume RSS

Taking things further, you could allow people to subscribe to the revision history of your resume, so every time you make a change they'll receive an update in their RSS reader. It pretty much automates keeping in touch with prospective employers.

Just how stupid is this idea?

I like it! I regularly get calls from recruiters wanting to know an update of my status, and if I'm in the market for this or that technology... this would be great. In fact, I'm probably going to do it.

I am very interested in this service for adding to my mentoring program for teen entrepreneurs. Could this be integrated into a wiki like Google sites? It would be nice if it would automatically update the wiki. When my bio/resume mentoring becomes available it will be available at http://www.indiestreetusa.com

Free newsletter should have option of weekly updates instead of daily, I will probably discontinue this pretty soon as my email account gets rather cumbersome for daily feeds.

Comments

1. Posted by: Jeremy on February 11, 2008 2:50 PM:

I don't think it is a bad idea, but the RSS idea may be a little too much. Most people who are hiring have overload of resumes as it is. Getting an update of someone's every time they make a revision might be a little too much, and might make that person put them in the do not call back pile that much quicker. It is a fine line between being aggressive and being annoying, that may be what puts you over the top.

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