hResumes Supported At LinkedIn
On a personal note, if I’ve been a little quiet lately, it’s because I’m pounding the pavement right now looking for a new job. I have several possibilities, so don’t worry…I just have to figure out what’s the right path for me to take. Since job hunting is foremost on my mind at the moment, this news caught my eye: LinkedIn will soon be supporting the hResume format. hResume is a new type of microformat and what this says to me is that LinkedIn will soon be offering some sort of feature where users can post resumes and others can query them. At least that’s what I’m getting out of it. Unless you know something else?
And while you’re at, anyone who can explain microformats in plain English would get a gold star from me because, quite frankly, the way they’re described at the microformats.org website is a bit too abstract for my tastes: "a way of thinking about data…design principles for formats…a set of simple open data format standards that many are actively developing and implementing for more/better structured blogging and web microcontent publishing in general."
Lossless XHTML is…what?
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I like it! Especially since I do use LinkedIn. I’ve never heard of the hResume format before, but hopefully using it will mean that I no longer have to re-input all of my resume info on each and every job website I use!
Good luck on the job search! Hope the job market in Tampa is good…
LinkedIn Launches hResume
It is with great pleasure that I announce LinkedIn has republished all Public Profiles marked up in the hResume microformat.
LinkedIn has approximately 9 million registered users. By default, a users Public Profile is set to Basic View. The Bas…
What sort of job are you looking for? My company has openings and you get to work from home too.
Go to http://www.contentmaster.com and have a look
The hardcore geeks would complain, but microformats are metatags (old site description style that google put the kabosh on — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatag) for individual bits of data. so instead of saying that this site is about travel, it’s this next 5 lines of XML are an address. Plus microformats are theoretically standardized, though that’s yet to be proven.
That’s not exactly english but is it closer?
Or…microformats is an attempt to standardize individual parts of exisiting standard formats.
Think of your blog…you’ve got an RSS feed and probably an ATOM feed. Inside each they have the same types of things (blog title, post titles, post excerpts, post dates). But, for each format (RSS, ATOM, etc) the title, excerpt, and date might each be a slightly different format.
For example, the date in format A might be 02/25/2007 and in format B 2007-02-25.
Microformats is a way of saying “No matter what kind of file it is stored in…no matter who creates it, if you find a date that’s called ‘mySpecialMicroformatDate’…it should/will always be in this format”.
PS…I was dropping by your blog cuz I’m visiting Tampa and I was driving through SOHO and thought of the TBBF which was hella fun so thought I’d say hi!
Oh…and I used 2/25 as the date because it’s a very very special date. Hope you’re well! 