"You're all over the Internet" someone once said to me. I looked at them worried about the potential meanings of that statement, and they replied: "Don't worry, that's a good thing." And looking at it in a professional sense for the media business, it is a good thing.
It could also be a bad thing. I'm start to look seriously again for a part-time job in order to suplement my freelance income. It could be retail, it could be office work as long as it brings in a regular pay cheque. My resume contains all of my media-related positions, and reads like someone waaay over qualified for retail, or without enough administrative experience for office work. Naturally a hiring manager looks at it and thinks "this person is gone the moment she gets a media job.
It isn't just me that's running into this. A lot of people my age are either unemployed or under employed and looking for work. The question we all face is how to tailor our resumes. Do we simply do it by re-order and condensing my positions? Or do we hit the delete button on a couple of our positions to make it seem like we're qualified?
The problem with that, is if you google my name you're going to come up with my twitter feed (third one down, page one), my facebook page- I often use it for promotion. Then there's my LinkedIn profile as well; containing details to pretty much every position I've ever held. If some of these details aren't on the resume is it considered tailoring? Or is it considered lying? Google could end up killing my shot at a job.
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