QR Codes On Your Resume: Gimmick Or Strategy?

Would you put a two-dimensional barcode (also known as a QR code) on your resume or business card? Would you scan one?

Our first instinct was to dismiss this as a gimmicky job-hunting strategy, but Joe Grimm talked to quite a few people who thought these were a good idea.

(If you’re lost at this point, read this and then come back.)

“Having it on your business card is very interesting because you’re handing those out person to person and it is generally a conversation starter,” Yvette Walker, a former recruiter, told Grimm.

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