Timeline for Would you put your Stack Overflow profile link on your CV / Resume?
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| Sep 4 at 0:00 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by CPlus♦ | ||
| May 23, 2017 at 12:40 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/ | |
| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:18 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/ | |
| Mar 4, 2017 at 14:54 | comment | added | Soner Gönül | joshuakehn.com/imprint gives 404 btw. | |
| Jan 13, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | asmeurer | I definitely agree that your highest voted answers and your best answers are probably not the same thing. | |
| Feb 11, 2013 at 16:21 | comment | added | Benjamin Crouzier | When reading someone else's resume, I am eager for anything that could backup the claims made. A so profile is perfect for that. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 22:34 | comment | added | Tom | Actually, I might write my LinkedIn account on the CV if I was applying for a marketing or a sales job. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 21:19 | comment | added | luis.espinal | I agree with you that less is typically more. But "less" depends on the circumstances. There is no clear-cut "generic" formula for this. One has to look into the substance of a CV to determine if the length of it is warranted or not (of if the substance is just plain ol' bs.) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 21:03 | comment | added | Josh K | I would appreciate comments from downvoters, always looking to provide better answers. :) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 20:24 | comment | added | Josh K | @luis: I don't have 25+ years of experience, so yes my resume will probably go beyond one page at some point. I'm trying to point out that less is often more. I had to go through resumes for people applying to a position and the number of people with 10+ pages of crap amazed me. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 20:17 | comment | added | luis.espinal | @KeithB - Oh, I agree with you. It is critical to have a well organized CV. Once you have it organized, let it be 4 pages if that's what's required. There is a difference between a) having a CV being 4 pages because it is a litany of technologies and b) it is 4 pages because it includes a dozen jobs narrating relevant contributions in each, graduate education and a summary current relevant technologies. The best resumes for sr. positions I've seen out there have never been less than 2 pages, with 3-4 being the norm (or more for people with 25+ years of industrial experience.) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 20:01 | comment | added | KeithB | @luis More than the length, what is critical is having it well organized so that I can find what I'm looking for. This is important when it comes time for me to convince my boss that I should hire you. I'm looking for more than a list of technologies that you (supposedly) know. I want to know the context in which you applied them, and what you did with them. Spending 5 years writing standalone Java apps is much different than spending that time writing n-teir, distributed business applications. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 19:57 | comment | added | KeithB | @Josh: I understand your position, and would not penalize someone for not having any link. But, as someone who has read more resumes lately than I care to think about, I wouldn't mind seeing some links to your online presence. It wouldn't matter if your technical skills on your resume are lacking, but might help if it was a borderline case. If nothing else, it shows that you treat your profession as more than just a 9-5 job. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 19:56 | comment | added | luis.espinal | I hear ya. For me, there is no way to include my work history and education without a 4-page resume (not unless I exclude everything but my last 5 years of work). Plus after a certain amount of years, you can't have a resume that is less than 2 pages short (3-4 is now the acceptable norm, specially in tech jobs.) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 19:49 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 632 characters in body |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 19:45 | comment | added | Josh K | @Luis: I would rather include no links on my resume. The resume should speak for itself and stand alone. Personally I never let mine get past one page. Recent work history, highlights, and a blub. If after that you don't feel the need to find out more, I probably wouldn't like working there anyway. And it's not like I have trouble finding work. :) | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 19:24 | comment | added | luis.espinal | I think it depends on the content of one's post in StackOverflow. I might not link my StackOverflow profile on my resume, but I do include links my linkedin profile as well as my technical blog. They themselves have links to my stackoverflow profile (and people can discern my contributions to say mathoverflow or cstheory.stackexchange.) In the end is all about the content that one creates. | |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 18:29 | history | edited | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 648 characters in body |
| Oct 14, 2010 at 18:22 | history | answered | Josh K | CC BY-SA 2.5 |