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• 20.03.2012 Posted by Donna
  Are visual resumes the new LinkedIn?
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There’s a reason LinkedIn is as successful as it is with more than 150 million accounts and two new ones created every second. It serves the need to separate our personal lives with our professional ones. While LinkedIn has been largely unchallenged as the more serious and subdued ‘professional network’ (as opposed to seemingly more frivolous offerings of Facebook or Twitter), there’s now ResumUP – a site that turns your online profile into a visual resume.

While the infographic-fied CV is interesting and handy on its own, ResumUP’s real test and actual potential will be its capability to connect, whether it be user to user, employer to employee or recruiter to jobseeker. With visual job vacancies in the mix (companies such as Adidas, Groupon and Kraft Foods have signed on to give it a go) and the promise of matching ability between visual resumes and potential jobs, the site looks promising…even if it did take half an hour longer to create than a LinkedIn profile. ResumUP relies on you to provide what you think your skills are then rank them from basic to advanced.

If I say I’m advanced in analytical thinking and basic in team work, did I just tell everyone on ResumUP that I’m socially incompetent?