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Use LinkedIn. It’s the modern resume. by ferndog

And it works. Period.

I went through 9 months of unemployment recently coinciding w/ the birth of our first child, much of it was discussed and documented here.

The ONLY traction I made and ALL of the interviews I got (except for one) were through LinkedIn. The traditional PDF / Doc resume with emails, filling out Application forms online through job sites, even companies’ websites directly...all of it was shouting into a gigantic black hole and a colossal waste of time, even as I was feeling I was getting lots of great progress made.

Have someone take a new photo of yourself currently in front of a clean simple background. Your iPhone is plenty good enough, especially with the Portrait Mode where you can blur out the background. Take or convert the photo to old-school B&W: it will stand out more. And actually be hipper than color.