Lose the Resumé, Start Tweeting

Experiment Tests Twitter’s Job Power

The clever folks at Guardian Careers, the newspaper’s one stop shop for career advice, want to know if we can expect to enter the post-CV era anytime soon. The site posed a challenge to its readers: Use the hashtag #TwitterJobChallenge and try microblogging to get off the dole.

More than 500 tweeters have joined the challenge thus far, taking a wide range of approaches to catch the eye of future employers. Job seekers have tried the simple: "Fancy hiring me then @guardiannews?" the aggressive, "@LabourParty Had many rejections from you because of my lack of experience.

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