Interviewing in 2011

Times are a changin', folks.  Things are not how they used to be.  This is evident, not in the rising costs of milk, eggs, bread, etc., but in the extensive, arduous process of searching and interviewing for a job.

It's 2011.  Paper resumes no longer get you anywhere.  We are in the era of technology, of information.  Where if you want something, you get it.  Where news travels faster by social media then it ever has before.  Where if you want a job, a paper resume won't cut it.  You've got to upgrade to the video resume.  Yes, the video resume. 

I went to a recruiting office today looking at some opportunities there.  (For those of you that don't know, my job situation is not the most ideal situation, so I've been keeping my options open for a while...a long while... and this recruiting center was just another step along the 'open option' way.)

I wasn't quite sure what to expect.  I figured a face to face interview, a paper resume review, a discussion, perhaps a little insight into a potential opportunity.  Riiiighhht.  (Obviously I'm still thinking it's 1999.)  What I got was an intelligence test, a Microsoft Office test, a Microsoft Excel test, a typing words per minute test, a drug test, AND a video resume, in addition to the face to face interview, paper resume review, and discussion.  I was not expecting all of that.  Talk about throwing you for a loop.

I passed all of my tests, I answered my three video resume questions, I did everything the recruiter asked me to do, and I left, for the first time in my life, feeling like the times have caught up to me and left me behind in the dust.

It's 2011.  I'm 29.  Good old fashioned paper resumes just won't cut it.  It's time to upgrade to the video resume.  It's time to adapt to the changing times.  It's time to catch up to the speed of the rest of the world, folks.

Welcome to Interviewing in 2011...