Apparently that’s the impression some people get, which really is sad…
What’s the apparent difference between ResumeWiki and linkedin? From my point of view, as a online resume center or job center, there is no obvious advantage of Resumewiki to compete with linkedin. Instead, only some tips on resume writing are useful for us.
I hadn’t realised ResumeWiki could be a community networking service, though I suppose that’s definitely possible. To clarify, the central point of ResumeWiki is this: to get everyone who contributes a better resume. Simple, plain and clear.
There are resources, blogs and articles on the site purely because they relate to everyone who is actively working on their resume: how to improve your resume, how to improve your jobhunting and how to find a job.
LinkedIn’s a great site, and I really don’t see myself competing with them in terms of where they are going: “LinkedIn helps you discover inside connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners.”
I’m sure you could use a resume along the way though, which is where ResumeWiki comes in 
And, I’m sure there are worse people to be competing with.
October 31st, 2004 at 10:45 am
LinkedIn is an entirely different concept, the most obvious one being that no one but you can edit your profile info, whereas with ResumeWiki, anyone can edit it.
I use LinkedIn and it’s an excellent resource with lots of potential. I’m starting with ResumeWiki as well primarily for the reasons you outlined, Jeremy, in your launch post:
ResumeWiki is a community edited resume centre. You post your profile (goals, etc) and resume; the community of peers will give you comments and possible edits.
October 31st, 2004 at 1:05 pm
Exactly! completely different concept!!!!!
Sometimes it amazes me how people can shut off their brains (or maybe they never turned them on in the first place??).
May 5th, 2005 at 8:00 am
Social Networking and IT employment Opportunities
Figured I would take the opportunity to share an interesting conversation as well as solicit the help of the community to find some candidates interested in working for a cool company……