Great Jobs Don’t Need A Resume

This is controversial, but here goes: “I think if you’re remarkable, amazing, or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume” – Seth Godin

Great people shouldn’t have a resume.

Here’s why: a resume is an excuse to reject you. Once you send me your resume, I can say, “oh, they’re missing this or they’re missing that,” and boom, you’re out.

Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant key words, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the corporate behemoth. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?

If you don’t have a resume, what do you have?

• How about three extraordinary letters of recommendation from people the employer knows or respects?
• Or a sophisticated project they can see or touch?
• Or a reputation that precedes you?
• Or a blog that is so compelling and insightful that they have no choice but to follow up?

Some say, “well, that’s fine, but I don’t have those.”

yeah, that’s my point. If you don’t have those, why do you think you are remarkable, amazing, or just plain spectacular? It sounds to mel like if you don’t have those, you’ve been brainwashed into acting like you’re sort of ordinary.

Great jobs, world-class jobs, jobs people kill for . . . those jobs don’t get filled by people emailing in resumes. Ever.

 
via. “Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?