Justin Vincent

Why You Need a 360 Degree Resume

Little did I know – when I built this site – what I was really building was a 360 degree resume. I’d never heard the term before. Because it didn’t exist (until a few minutes ago). It was just coined by a friend of mine during a phone conversation. We were discussing the site that you’re looking at now.

Here’s what he said:

“Your site is very different from a traditional two dimensional resume. It’s a bit like walking around you and looking at you from different angles.

You have control over what you’re showing to people… but to them it feels like you’re standing there and they are able to inspect different aspects of your online persona at will.

It’s much more of a warts-and-all experience, which makes sense given today’s all access social media expectations. People don’t expect things to be hyped, polished and packaged in the same way as days of old.

The beauty of it is it enables you to pull in many different aspects of your working-self to create an overall picture of who you are.

For example a prospective employer can listen to your podcasts or view your tweet stream to get a sense of how you interact with people and what kind of ideas you have.

It’s very powerful and very compelling and it’s apparent that it’s genuine.

It’s sort of like a 360 degree resume.

Nice site.

I like it.”