hResume - Microformats and Job Search 2.0

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As part of what I am calling Job Search 2.0 - there is a push for creating a standardized way for people to control their resume data. Instead of having to enter their resume into numerous job boards in a million different formats - there is a standardized online format that has been created and is gaining in popularity called hResume.

What the heck is hResume and why should you care?

hResume creates a new page in your blog specifically designed to present your resume in a visual form that is viewable by people and computers. The hResume Project has developed an hResume plugin for WordPress (sponsored by SPUR) that automatically embeds semantic markup as specified in the hResume Microformat. Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. By using this semantic markup, resume content can be read by computers operated by employers and employment websites. Additionally, the format will allow search engines to easily index resume content and return resume data in search results.

New and progressive sites like Emurse already accept hResumes. If this gains in popularity - it may force the big boards to accept resumes in this format as well. This puts the control of the content back in the hands of the job seekers. They are free to include only the information that they are comfortable sharing publicly. There is no *required* info to submit. Resume content can be housed and updated in ONE place (and then just ping job boards to advise of an update - just like posting a new blog post).

Given the ease of indexing the content - the adoption of hResume formats by job seekers would be quite a windfall for recruiters and sourcers. You can see how it works on our EXCELER8ion blog. Take a look at the nav bar at the top and you will see that there is now a tab that says 'resume'.

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Marilyn L

Hi Shannon. I hadn't heard about hResume. It sounds like a good microformat. Thanks for the introduction.

I just tried your link to your blog, but it doesn't work. I found your blog anyway, but you might want to revise it to make it easier to find. I took a look at your resume page. Are the little repeated iframes part of the spec. I found them distracting. What's up with them?

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#1 - Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:21 AM EDT

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Shannon Seery

Hi Marilyn:

Thank you very much for letting me know that the link was broken (just a silly missing " in the code) - it is now fixed.

As for the resume page on my blog - I used the wordpress plugin that was developed and it is the plugin that is controlling the formatting - I haven't gone in to try and tweak it yet and this was my first foray into microformats. There is a wiki that is being maintained that has quite a bit of info on hResume that you should check out if you didn't get there yet.

If you figure out an easy way to remove the extra iframes - be sure to let me know. :-)

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#2 - Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:37 AM EDT

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Marilyn L

Hi Shannon. Glad to help! I use Blogger (though haven't done much blogging since I found Newsvine--too addictive. ;)

I'll check it out, might take a while though, and will let you know if I find out anything useful.

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#3 - Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:43 AM EDT

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Tim Baxter

In the meantime, you could set those to be 0 x 0, or set display:none or something.

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#4 - Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:36 AM EDT

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