Are you ready to take your resume and online branding to an even more socially-savvy place? Well I hope so, because Vunovate Media just launched FirstDialog, the world’s first online personal branding and social recruitment platform for professionals. For those of you thinking this is just a LinkedIn wannabe, I’m going to ask you to trust me and keep reading.

FirstDialog aims to take the usual resume process and add a social and multimedia twist. This small startup is aiming to raise the bar across the online resume culture. The –currently free—platform allows job seekers to add rich media to their resume, verify credentials, showcase skills assessments and showcase all of this in a socially-driven platform.

So what does that really mean?

FirstDialog aims to be the future of resume building and personal branding online. In the past two years the online job search process has been slowly but surely integrating more socially-aligned intentions and functionality. Recently we have seen some heavy hitters like SimplyHired take a step in the social direction.

Meanwhile as the job boards evolve we have seen little movement in the resume sector. Posting your resume online is still dicey at best. We have yet to see a resume site evolve to fit this socially-friendly landscape and to top it all off we are still combating huge privacy concerns. This all leaves online job seekers with few options when it comes to sprucing up their resume and vamping up their personal brand online.

Powerful, multimedia presentations through secure video hosting and streaming

Intuitive, online video editor that allows users to create a professional-quality video or multimedia presentation of their achievements

Extensive set of rich, web based and SEO optimized resume templates

Document showcase with secure document upload and sharing

Credential verification of professional and educational information through a global verification partner

Extensive security and privacy mechanisms, giving users total privacy control including 256 bit SSL and 128 bit passkey level access control

Easy to remember unique short URL

Professional networking and a rich set to features allowing you to share of job news, industry news, one click job referrals, and more

Deep analytics to track resume delivery, views, and other statistics

Smart follow-up mechanism to maintain constant communication with prospective employers

After running through that list I was seriously impressed and went over to the site to check things out. Apparently FirstDialog is the brain child of two young entrepreneurs—Nasr Khan and Amit Koshal. The founders outline a sincere dedication to helping online job seekers really take their personal branding to a new and improved level, and I was really impressed with the focus they exuded when it comes to privacy features and safeties.

I am definitely excited to see how this evolves. The resume world has been begging for a platform like for a while now, and I have a feeling once FirstDialog goes public they will see a great deal of support from both job seekers and hiring managers. Not only does the platform give the job seeker an advantage in this competitive climate but it provides hiring managers a destination to seek out top-notch candidates.

Good stuff all around. Will keep you posted on what else we hear as FirstDialog grows. As of right now it is private alpha. So you can sign up here for an invitation. As they continue to refine the platform and prepare for launch they will begin to shoot out invites and open the flood gates. If you are currently looking for a job you should definitely get in on this…I have a feeling this is going to be big. Not to mention the price point right now is free but as we all know well enough in this industry—it doesn’t always stay that free ;)

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