The so-called "trend watcher of branded resumes" Deb Dib says there is a "lot of movement" towards 1-page resumes. This is but half the story because what she doesn't know is that we've already been there and 1-pagers need a lot more now than then to make an impact. She suggests leading off with a "brand statement" that portrays your "personal chemistry" and "how you would fit", or in other words, who you are.
As I said in 1975 in The Resume Writer's Handbook and its various editions, and in Bioblogs: Resumes for the 21st Century (2006): employers hire character, not skills. Thank you Deb for making a good argument for using a bioblog to paint a picture of your personal chemistry, how you would fit, and the kind of creative character at work you are promoting.
If anything implies a brand and makes a statement in the world of resumes (chronological job obits, functional job descriptive lists, combo mumbo), it's the powerful, graphic-driven, street-savvy bioblog, the one in a million document that transcends the limits of data dumped under dates.
Fit: how you work, how you relate, how you emote, how you think, how you create, how you will be in the future.
