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Seth Godin brings the interesting:

This is controversial, but here goes: I think if you’re remarkable, amazing or just plain spectacular, you probably shouldn’t have a resume at all. Not just for my little internship, but in general. Great people shouldn’t have a resume.

Radical? Maybe, but nonetheless interesting.

In the past, I’ve balked at applying for jobs I know I’d be good at because I didn’t have X on my resume. In hindsight, this was stupid since most of the things I didn’t have could be learned over a weekend. Lesson learned, I suppose.

The only problem I see with Seth’s suggestions is that most places require you to submit a resume, but he has a good rebuttal to that in the article:

Having a resume begs for you to go into that big machine that looks for relevant keywords, and begs for you to get a job as a cog in a giant machine. Just more fodder for the corporate behemoth. That might be fine for average folks looking for an average job, but is that what you deserve?

Hear hear.