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Quick Look: No More Résumés, Say Some Firms

Tina Barseghian

Jan 26, 2012

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Your Tumblr blog and Twitter account are more important to some employers.

Source: Wsj

Union Square Ventures recently posted an opening for an investment analyst. Instead of asking for résumés, the New York venture-capital firm-which has invested in Twitter, Foursquare, Zynga and other technology companies-asked applicants to send links representing their "Web presence," such as a Twitter account or Tumblr blog.