Weekend Reader
May 19th, 2007 (8:05am) Anne Zelenka 4 Comments
Ranking resumes — TalentSpring launched this week with a resume marketplace using ranking instead of search to help employers find potential new hires.
In order to have your resume included in their database, you must rank 12 other resumes using pairwise comparisons (i.e., do you like Jane or Joe better? Jane or Elizabeth? Joe or Elizabeth? and so forth). Then the system uses various algorithms to control for potential ranking misbehavior, like downgrading people who might compete with you for the same job.
Instead of subjecting yourself to that ranking — and having to rank resumes yourself — why not use a blog as your resume? [TalentSpring via TechCrunch]
Get creative with your business cards — Metallic, translucent, folded… you’ll find tons of ideas in this gallery of fun designs. [creativebits]
Sendmail for arseholes — From the author of The No Asshole Rule comes the ArseMail page, for helping your coworkers and friends deal with difficult people or for apologizing for the difficult person you’ve been. [ArseMail]
More online mind mapping — Comapping offers real-time collaboration web-based mind mapping with auto-layout. Want to read about other options? Check the Daily Iteration’s review of web and Windows-based mind mapping software including mindmeister, bubbl.us, Freemind, and others. [Comapping via jkOnTheRun]
More online lists — Listigator lets you make lists. Online. Then share them, either read-only or editable. [Listigator]
In/out board for virtual teams — Use a chat room so team members can say when they’re “in” and what they’re working on. Ryan Carson’s team uses their chat room for daily check-ins, weekly check-ins, and virtual over-the-cube conversations. [Carsonified]
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omouse says: May 19th, 2007 10:29am
Wow, another website for todo lists! How many more of those are there??
Lifehacker: Use your blog to get yourself a new job... « Identity Unknown says: May 20th, 2007 9:05am
[...] The Blog is the New Resume [Bokardo via Web Worker Daily] [...]
Lifehacker: Use your blog to get yourself a new job... « Ryan Lanham says: May 20th, 2007 9:06am
[...] The Blog is the New Resume [Bokardo via Web Worker Daily] [...]
Cameron says: July 29th, 2007 11:15pm
Basecamp seemed alright at first. However, it turned out to be “not for us” for a number of reasons. There were many drawbacks, e.g. it lacked a function that allows us to see the progress of our work. Finally, it seemed to be more of a communication tool, than a real project management application. We tried many other tools and finally settled on wrike.com. We use it to manage multiple projects in one place under personal accounts. I love its simplicity and functionality. All I need is just to create a task via e-mail to one of my team members by adding wrike@wrike.com to the CC field. And it has Gantt chart feature, which helps to show an overview all our projects. We tried the basic free subscription, but soon decided on paying for the pro-version for the whole team of 14. It’s really worth it!