Of course you’d have to make the resume where you could control who sees it. But a resume that only your friends could see would seem to be of limited use. Your immediate social network probably already knows if you’re actively looking around.

Don’t understand the points system at all, frankly. People need points to view resumes? I thought you wanted people, at least certain people, to see your resume

I know Noah is a Facebook alumn, and I’m not hating on them, but the network concept they have seems kind of all-or-nothing. For example I could join the network for my hometown, but then EVERYONE where I live can see my profile, so I’m obliged to keep my profile so bland that it doesn’t really matter if everyone on the internets can see my profile anyways.

The 2 reporters who are writing stories about professionals starting to use FB instead of linkedin must be under 25. I’m – a good bit older than that, and while I created a FB profile so as to see what it’s all about I feel like the creepy older guy at the rock concert while visiting that site. I got into linkedin and found that a lot of people I work with are already there. Their structure, while it’s not perfect either, seems much better suited for business networking, and seems welcoming to college students and graduates who are looking to network with other business people.

Well, gotta run. My palm is flashing red and there are some guys in blue jumpsuits at my door…

Privacy is going to be the biggest issue. Facebook doesn’t have good privacy designations for groups. Everyone is either Stranger, Network, or Friends. It doesn’t differentiate between business contact, drinking buddy, and that girl from the bar that one time.

Switching privacy must be easy and understandable since what typically happens is that people have two contexts:

- I’m looking for work, I want *anyone* to read my resume
- I’m not looking for work, keep my resume private from headhunters and identity stealers

Get some write-ups about your app on the job hunter sites. It’s going to be slow going, not a huge viral push.

You might even consider buying ads for your app on job boards for sites like TechCrunch and 37Signals.

2 – Privacy concerns
For the LinkedIn resume and recommendations, they should have privacy settings similar to LinkedIn. For users that upload individual resumes, probably is best recommend them not to put phone or e-mail on their resume. Instead, make the Facebook message inbox more prominent. I think mimicking Facebook’s privacy setting on for this app is too strict. If you can set it so that it’s not network dependent, it would be better.

3 – Point system
In the point system may be a neat way, but it should have a better system equation than that. The point system should perhaps tell how qualified the person is. That’s a neat brainstorming session in itself.

I think it would be useful if you could search for other resumes by certain categories such as location or industry – useful for employers, too.

By the way, I do use the Resume app since I’m back in the job market – I’d love to see it flourish!