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The Social Media Marketing Resume

Posted in: Blog, Personal Brand, Social Media by Christian on September 7, 2009

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social media marketing resumeThe obvious to me are the ones with links to their social networking profiles and when checking their profiles that they are consistently active in those communities while advocating in a niche market or industry. They also have to be cognizant to social media marketing trends (vanity urls, social media tools, etc.) and the implementation of those tools. If they truly know what they are doing besides existing on social networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook and using social media tools like Twitter they are also writing about it in their blog and creating Slideshare presentations on a regular basis. Are they active and are they staying relevant week to week, month to month, year to year while gaining new followers and building a tribe. True social media “experts” are public speakers who are passionate about marketing in their niche industry and future trends while educating others on they why and the how.

Are they truly active and staying relevant beyond their resume? The great thing about Social Media resumes is that it is easier to go on fact finding missions. Some say personal branding is becoming more important to a company that the company brand itself and I tend to agree because it is the people who make that brand what it is. Social media has changed the way we think and act on what was traditional marketing campaigns. A good friend Nate Riggs talks about this in his blog.

Checklist for any resume whether it is for a social media resume or not is:

    + Blog/Website URL
    + Branded Email Address (preferably to blog or website)
    + Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter URLs
    + Link to a site that provides an expanded resume like VisualCV
    + Link to SlideShare URL

All that being said some of the best resumes I’ve seen are the online ones and more specifically the ones that usual VisualCV.

http://www.visualcv.com/ariherzog

http://www.visualcv.com/scobleizer

http://www.visualcv.com/guykawasaki

Here is mine, although it is in desperate need of updating it gives you an idea of some of the important elements to look for in a social media marketing resume: http://www.visualcv.com/christianadams and my blog is a mess, but I currently write on various subject matter related to the internet at http://www.mashingthenet.com

I would say the person to look for is the one making waves locally and if they are at various business and social events offline or ask if people have heard of that person. Mashable also has a good post about HOW TO: Build the Ultimate Social Media Resume.

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  1. Torben Rick

    Great post thanks.

    Sites like Visualcv, XING and Linkedin are great “resume” sites. But not get a “Personal Branding Landing Page” – this could than loook like:

    http://www.torbenrick.eu

    Love to get your feedback

    Comment by Torben Rick on November 6, 2009 at 12:46 am