Earlier this week Seth Godin published a blog post saying that most people should not need a resume to get a job. Recommendations, a tangible proof of concept of your qualities, a blog, or the like should be enough to get a company to have your attention, and hopefully hire you.

I agree to an extent – you need a resume, but it should be the last part of your “Portfolio”, within your portfolio you should have a cover letter, recommendations, past projects or something tangible (if you have it) that you have worked on, and then last but not least – the resume.

As most readers know – the whole purpose of my creating this blog was to get people’s attention – get the interest of Starwood Capital or Starwood Hotels Hotel Development department so they can see that even though I do not have years of hotel development experience – I do have experience in project management, construction, real estate etc – but more than that, I have a passion to work for one of those two companies and to help them grow. It’s also a way to put my name out there, so readers can read my posts and see that I put thought into them, research them and do more than just regurgitate a press release. (To that extent – I have received numerous emails from people who say they look to my blog as a resource for the hotel industry)

But it’s still not that simple.

In addition to writing this blog, I’ve put together some great recommendations from pretty influential people who I’ve worked with or know throughout my daily life. I sent a FedEx copy of those require – especially the publicly traded ones), to people within Starwood Capital & Starwood Hotels, I followed up with phone calls and reached out to people who may have contacts within the companies. It’s more than just getting recommendations, its having the facts to back up those recommendations.

I’m getting closer and closer everyday to getting the position I’ve been dreaming of, and alot of it can be attributed to this blog and the networking which has come of it. Once I get the position, the company that hires me will never be the same.

Anyone out there want to see my portfolio? Send me an email, I’ll see what I can do.

andrew@alconic-inc.com