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Hi there,

So this is it. I am blogging... now what?

I guess I will just start writing whatever is on my mind while trying to create a great web service. I am calling it a service not a website because I believe that technology must serve a purpose beyond just being cool. In fact, I believe that the best website is invisible. I do not really want people to see my website. Don't get me wrong. I do want millions of people visiting my website and enjoying the service, but their mind should not be focussed on my website but rather on what they are getting out of it.

So what is resumendation.com? Welcome to my first challenge :-) Of cause I know what it is, but expressing it clearly in few words is more difficult for me than creating the whole damn thing. I will give it a try and you are most welcome to critique or compliment or suggest better wording... so here we go:

Resumendation.com is a website where employed individuals can express who they really are and what they really want to do, while remaining totally anonymous. Potential employers will be able to search anonymous profiles and contact individuals, in an attempt to convince the individuals to disclose who they are and discuss a job offer.

This is it. Short and sweet.

I believe that we all deserve a chance of being hired for who we really are. Just imagine how great it would be to take all the masks off and just be yourself. Scary, isn't it?

I did not like the fact that a candidate needs to submit a resume to an employer and hope to be picked. Resumendation.com changes that so that the candidates list their profiles (anonymously) and potential employers try to convince the candidates to talk to them. On resumendation.com, the candidate is in control rather than the potential employer. Employers will need to expose their identity in order to convince candidates to agree to communicate. Only if the individual likes the employer he or she will decide to communicate, while remaining anonymous. At some stage, when the candidates are ready, they too can identify themselves. But only of they are ready and willing.

Just imagine how nice it would be to be able to describe who you truly are without the limitations of a conventional resume and without disclosing your true identity. I do not want to condense myself into a single (or double) page resume for some junior HR consultant to go through at the speed of light, looking for reasons to take me off his overstocked desk.