I'm a fan of throwing away resumes as long as you have a strong, short story the person reading your email can understand. If you're emailing an HR department,

I'm a fan of throwing away resumes as long as you have a strong, short story the person reading your email can understand. If you're emailing an HR department, all is lost. If you're emailing a manager directly, you can actually talk to them instead of trying to flaunt your peacock feathers (read: resume). My recent job inquiries have involved a short description of why I'm relevant to their posting along with different aspects of my life online. Sure, they may see me flirting with someone on twitter, but that's the world we live in. You don't want to work for a company that won't stalk you online first anyway. Make it easy for them. Example of an online relevant context dump: "Here are some supplemental contexts of me online: • https://github.com/mattsta https://github.com/mattsta (point out which projects are relevant) • http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=seiji http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=seiji (point them to my ancient HN profile) • old stuff at http://matt.io/ http://matt.io/ (ancient personal minutia with a prominent post or two) • life/tech/gripes at https://twitter.com/mattsta https://twitter.com/mattsta (life; uncensored) • current slowly up-and-coming project: https://ldf.io/ https://ldf.io/ (a point of information about something made from scratch)"