I’m famous!
What a way to start off the first post of a brand new blog, then to announce to the world that I am famous. There is a paradox in there somewhere. Anyway, recently I have been courting the idea of a product manager role at EarthLink, managing portal content. I thought it would be fun to create a video resume supplement to my traditional resume, and so a couple weeks ago I spent several hours late into the night tinkering with my webcam and Micro$oft MovieMaker, and out popped my video confection. Fast forward to the present: I received an email from YouTube asking me to approve a comment. A comment? Who in the world would have found my video resume, much less commented on it?? Sure enough, someone wrote a comment and mentioned that I had made it into the top ten in an article about, well, video resumes. I was supremely curious, so I poked around and… OMG I’m famous! Well, almost…
Article: Job Hunters Seek Winning Edge in Video Resumes
(check out #2 on the top ten list to the left)
And here is the direct link to my video resume.