Is the paper resumé dead?

In today’s recruiting world, resumés are typically submitted electronically through job boards or directly through a company’s website.  The age of dropping off your resumé at your future employer’s office has come and gone.

According to the telegraph, the average human attention span is about 12 seconds.

That means that not only do you need to stand out from the myriad of peers submitting bundles of digital packets through sites designed to aggregate the best match for a job, often through computer algorithms, but if your special document does happen to make it through the herd, you have about 12 seconds to impress the reader before they toss yours aside for the next one.

We have our increasingly digital, “on-demand”, world to thank for our lack of attention spans, but how can we use this to our advantage?

The next generation of resumé is interactive.

Some people are getting creative with their resumés and making them digital as well.  Not just a Word document, but something interactive and personal, that tailors to our shortened attention spans.

Check out “7 Interactive Resumés That Will Shame Your Paper Version” from Mashable.  There are some great concepts in here, including my personal favorite from Robby Leonardi, who took the concept of gamification and the paper resumé and mashed them together into a work of art.

In keeping with those before me, here’s an example of my own “interactive resume”.

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