I know apps - Scott Hanselman

I liked a lot this sentence:<p>"Do you have 20 years experience or do you have the same 1 year of experience twenty times"<p>If you have been doing the same thing 10 years without ever learning something new, in my view that is not a very big advantage over someone with less exp.

I would be more impressed to interview someone who knows the basics of latex than an "expert" in Word. While latex is obviously not a determiner of intelligence, the average person who considers themselves to be a savy Word user would cringe at the thought of "coding" their resume, let alone take the extra effort.

His Careers 2.0 CV includes this:<p>"Confessions of your worst WTF moment: I shipped my administrator password for an FTP site inside an open source project I was working on. ;)"<p>Everyone's made mistakes, but I don't know whether I would like to put them on my CV.

"Why don't we include projects rather than companies on our resumes?"<p>Because The Suits demand secrecy and although threats from former employers may get struck down by a court, I don't have the financial resources to find out. Repeatedly. It's less expensive to tell you I've implemented COM in Java on OS X for the last 17 years.

People that don't know how to censor or write up teaser highlights of their career, is the easiest filter when going over resumes. So basically your article is stating your friends resume would go in my rejected pile.

As much as I love stackoverflow, I don't know that I want to create a hiring culture/environment in which the top thing on a resume is what % of users person x is in with regards to answering questions (or creating answers people like) on a specific (for profit) website. I do agree with the underlying premise that judging people by resumes is a tired tradition and I don't know if I have a better answer - yet? :) This isn't a dig on gamification either, traditional resumes might be the original 'career gamification'. Just not sure that having an entire industry base expertise in some manner on the weight of one website's ranking algo is a smart move.