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Do Social Networks Trump Résumés?
For finance professionals, a carefully crafted résumé has always been vital to landing a job. Now some experts say that social-networking Websites have become just as important to a successful job search, if not more so.
In the last 18 months or so, I’ve run across a lot of recruiting and job-seeking on sites liked LinkedIn. This trend seems likely to continue as electronic tools take the place of paper-based documents even in the relatively traditional area of employment. If online dating can be mainstream it makes sense that the job market would move that direction as well.
