Making a commercial resume?

April 4, 2009 – 12:36 pm – No Comment

On news sites across the internet, everyone is buzzing about commercial resumes. It seems because people are having such a hard time finding work that they have resorted to ad style resumes to try to “sell” themselves to an employer.

This seems like a pretty good idea if your job field is say, marketing or advertising (or both!), but what does a resume that is also an advertisement really do for someone that a video resume doesn’t?

First, you have to purchase airtime (if you want it on tv), otherwise, it’s a video resume because you’re just sending it to an employer.

Second, you actually have to have some kind of production equipment or you will have to pay someone to do that video for you.

I don’t know about some people, but I don’t have the kind of money to throw around on something that is expensive and may or may not work.