It used to be a necessity for every individual looking for a job to have a resume, but in this day and age, the usefulness of a standard resume has diminished quite a bit. It’s now quite commonplace for an employer who’s looking to find out some information about a job candidate (especially if they’re involved with technology) to just do a Google search using their name, and in most cases, that will give them all of the information that they’ll need. With that said, the resume isn’t dead yet, but the format of the resume is certainly evolving thanks to services like VisualCV.

Since many employers expect that you’ll detail some of your professional experience online, why not just give them what they want? Instead of having to send a potential employer a document containing your resume, you can build an online resume with VisualCV that anyone will be able to discover and review, assuming that you make it public. The format will be attractive, and since it’s online, you can include links to Web sites and documents, embed pictures and videos, and so on. This service presents the next generation of resumes, and prospective employers will be impressed when they see your VisualCV.

The job recruiting process is broken in so many ways. If I listed all of them here, then there would be no space for the actual review. Companies waste a lot of time and money recruiting people, and as a potential job candidate, you have to deal with seemingly endless interviews with companies that may or may not actually be very interested in you. In turn, you end up wasting a lot of your own time. Companies are always looking for the best, and if you’re great at what you do, then you could receive offers from these companies to get paid just to take part in an interview. NotchUp makes this possible.

I received an invitation to this service through a member, and I was impressed with how easy it was to get started. Instead of having to manually enter in all of your professional information, you can have the service connect to your LinkedIn account and bring all of those nicely formatted details to your NotchUp profile. It’s up to you to specify what your interview price is, but if you’re not sure of a figure to use, check out the interview calculator that can give you a good idea about what to charge. You can easily ask for hundreds of dollars, but actually receiving offers like that is an entirely different story. Whether you’re currently looking for another job or not, NotchUp will protect your privacy and keep you anonymous until you accept interview offers, which is great.