Can you tweet your resume? | Bangkok Post: business

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Did you hear about the new type of resume that's only 140 characters long? Twitter fans will immediately know why 140 and not 141, because when you tweet text on social networking and micro-blogging sites that's normally all you get.

This latest trend in recruiting comes from China where the micro-blogging site http://weibo.com allows a 140-character resume. But take note that you need a lot more characters and words in the English language to express what 140 Chinese characters do. So I'm not so sure how popular this will be in the part of the world using the Latin alphabet.

When I met Ong the first time, at a sports and networking event more than 10 years ago, she gave me her business card. As I was looking at her card, I asked what she was doing and what her background was. She said: "I'm looking for a job, please take a look at the back of my business card."