Advice

Why You’re Stuck With Your Resume

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I’m a fan of Laurie Ruettimann over at The Cynical Girl. She’s an HR Pro who seriously knows her stuff, and is willing to discuss said stuff in all of it’s important, cynical, and at times soul-crippling glory. Most of her bag is obviously HR, recruiting, and hiring.

Awhile ago she discussed the fact that, yes you still need a resume. I wanted to add my own thoughts because I’ve been hearing for years that the resume is going to vanish.

It’s not going to vanish.  Trust me.  I think that’s something to talk about in depth.

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Geek As Citizen: To Teach

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Last week I discussed how we Geeks should work to archive, organize, republish, and propagate our works – and really to encourage people to do something with what they write (or at least the good stuff). Now back to my speculations on the Geek role as a Citizen (and eventually back to this more specific speculation).

And related to publishing? I think a major role of Citizen Geeks is to teach.

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The Importance Of Postmortems

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Two weeks ago, when I mentioned, in “Geek As Citizen” that part of being a Geek was to experiment – and thus that was a role we played as Citizens – Serdar brought up the fact that experimenting doesn’t always mean success.

In fact, that’s the point of an experiment. It’s why we call it an experiment, because we’re not sure it’s going to work or even what we’re doing. If we did we’d call it a sure thing, or business as usual, or we wouldn’t have a name for it because it would be Normal.

Experiments aren’t normal. Or sure. Or at times all that planned. Which means they fail.

Which means that it’s time for what we call in the business world a “post mortem.”

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