About Emurse.com
Information about Emurse.com
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Emurse, an anagram for Resume, is a powerful online tool designed to help take control of your job hunt. Some features:
- Resume Builder
- Resume Website
- Resume Management
- Networking
- Personalized Job Postings
- Job Search
- Job Hunt Organizer
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I’m not so sure that I buy into that it does all of these things, but it does “do” resumes. As such, I’ve always thought that the universe needed an xml for resumes. Maybe this is it. I think it can save those “out” some time and effort. Those “in” can use it for the passive trolling everyone should be doing. If you think like I do that I’ll never have another job, please visit my turkey farm (http://tinyurl.com/lxu93) and check out the accommodations, you’ll be there soon. Every time I am sure of something, the Universe orders me up a whole big heaping dish of “humble pie” and sends me a lesson.
ymmv fwiw I like it,
fjohn
the big fat old turkey hisself
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UPDATE: Fixed typo. Argh!
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First, thank you for your comment. I’m always a little amazed when anyone pays attention to my opinion. At work, I get paid for people to pay attention. Out here on the inet, it more me just commenting. I have low expectations of any thing happening.
>I’m not sure what exactly it is you don’t “buy into”
Well you assert to be “the solution” for: Resume Builder, Resume Website, Resume Management, Networking, Personalized Job Postings, and Job Search. Sorry but that is VERY expansive claim. Having played around with emurse, I think you have ½ the claim on resume builder. Hence my interest in XML for resumes. Your site doesn’t accept a resume and parse it. (Why does EVERY site make the poor befuddled seeker put everything in from scratch?)
Further, from a philosophy pov, I have the similar gripes with LinkedIn and most “job” sites. The only purpose of a resume is to induce a conversation. Humans, not being specialized like insects, can do numerous wondrous things. A resume is pretty flat in comparison to people’s ability. Now not everything I can do creates value for every enterprise. (Although I do a mean whine about gooferment, no one will pay me to perform it. … Yet!) SO seekers need the ability to highlight different skills in response to different interests. In my case, I can do IT Architecture and Business Process Reengineering. Two different resumes. Last time I was out, I actually had 21 different value propositions each expressed in their own resume. Sure some looked alike but they were “different” resumes. All were trying to induce a different conversation with sometimes overlapping audiences.
So, I partially buy into ceding emurse the resume niche. Don’t get too cocky cause I see where you can be edged out. Automated resume intake, value propositional output, and cost.
As far as, Network, Job Posting, and Search, having an offering doesn’t make it the best imho. So, to claim the “networking” crown, you have to compare yourself to LinkedIn, JibberJobber, and Facebook. You have (again imho) lightyears to go to catch up in that space. I won’t even get into Postings and Search, where you are even further away from the bulls eye.
Now don’t get me wrong. Just doing one thing well impresses me. That’s why I blogged about it. (If you don’t think that’s a good review, then I’ll have to introduce you to people that I have savaged with my critique. Some get really upset. But, it’s just an opinion.)
And, you are playing in a space, where due to so many scams, I regularly advise newly axed turkeys (job seekers) to NEVER pay for anything. I have softened that advice just a little in that I tell those who are in that they should pay for Execunet, JibberJobber, and LinkedIn. “Outs” still should be cautious with every penny. I haven’t softened to emurse as worthy of an “outs” scarce resources, but maybe like the others it’ll grow on me.
>HR-XML and hResume
Yup, I am aware of these things but, until they become lingua franca, from my seekers pov they don’t exist. When I see the ability for example at emuse to stick in an resume, HR-XML, or hResume, then it’s all manual entry. It’s a disconnect on the information highway to mix some metaphors.
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Again thanks for prompting me to elaborate, and I hope this explains my qualified review of emurse.
fjohn
The big fat old turkey hisself
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I’m not sure what exactly it is you don’t “buy into”, but if you’d like to email me directly, I can certainly help point out all the various features of our site :)
There is an existing XML format for resumes used throughout the HR field known as HR-XML. It’s something we use on our backend and make available to partners (co-branding situations, etc.). It’s really powerful, very flexible and even somewhat extensible.
There is also a microformat effort known as hResume. Microformats allow you to class existing html markup to help applications quickly identify what portions of a webpage relate to that particular microformat. It’s pretty neat stuff, and we’ve enjoyed assisting where we can on that front.
Hope that helps, and thanks for the shout out/link!
Best,
Alex Rudloff
Emurse.com
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