Its interesting Seth Godin writes that there is no need for a resume, even for his internship, yet probably runs into the very problem that resume’s solve: Weeding out the chaff. When you are looking for a person for a job, you aren’t doing all your in depth research on every single candidate. You figure out the ones you want to look into more and then do your google search on them. You do this via their resume. If I am looking for a coder in PHP, I will weed out everyone without coding experience no matter how great their blog is.

The second problem here is that not everyone knows what their blog is about and majority of time, the blog has absolutely nothing to do with work. Just because someone may be an awesome photographer does not mean they can work well with others. Looking at my own blog, it is definitely all over the place. I would never want an employer to judge my work based on what i write here. They can get a sense of my personality, but there is no way you can judge the output of my work on this silly thing. Quite frankly, I don’t even have interest in having a blog that is purely about business, my interests extend further than just internet and advertising.

Rarely will I disagree with one of his remarks, but gotta go with the recruiters on this one. Resume’s are important. That being said, I believe everyone’s goal, however they get there, is to get to the point where a resume is no longer important.