I don't know about you but I am always telling my kids to actually pick up the phone and talk rather than texting or 'MSN-ing' or emailing!! There does seem to be a real aversion these days to using that 'old fashioned' communication method of speech.
It seems that the reverse is starting happen with the way the web is evolving at the fantastic rate it is. It seems that candidates and companies alike want to use the medium of speech as the differentiator for either themselves or their business. Two good examples of this are Chris Russell's product Jobs in Pods aimed at the corporates, and a product aimed at candidates and recruiters called TalkingCV.
Jobs in Pods is a great idea to allow prospective employees to listen to jobs rather than reading them and to hear what its like to work there.
TalkingCV allows candidates to produce a revolutionary 3 dimensional personal profile consisting of video, audio and text, talking CV with just the aid of a webcam - and for the recruiters they can pre-specify certain questions to be answered.
It does seem at last that with the advent of technology, the cost to both companies and individuals alike is more realistic for them to be different and use these and other ways to do so. I just wonder how long it will take the corporate world to grasp these new ways of presenting themselves to their audience, as well as accepting looking/listening at a CV, rather than the tired traditional methods.
