Curriculum vitae to go the way of snail mail and fax machines, Wall Street Journal says

By Craig Regan

Between jobs? In this digitally-connected, social media-driven world, there are lots of options before you enter the revolving door of recruitment companies.

PR Weekly is spruiking this thoughtful column piece on the value of blogs as a tool to put on your best face.

While prospective employers trawling social media to gain perspective on a candidate is becoming legitimised, an article in the Wall Street Journal today says some US firms are going one step further and telling candidates to ditch their resumes and show them their Web presence.

Nervous? If you're a serial killer, it's probably a good idea to take down your Facebook page (but you probably already knew that.)

The less colourful might fret about that embarassing MySpace photo album of us chugging a yard glass at our 21st before getting behind the wheel of the porcelain bus for a technicolour yawn.

But things change so quickly in social media. How many people with a MySpace page can remember their password let alone the defunct email address they used to register?