While Stow Boyd is jump­ing on Amanda Mooney’s tweet that

The new resume is 140 char­ac­ters or less

Soo­cial, a Dutch startup excit­ing in and for itself, asked for this items when recruiting:

If you feel you can help us out we have a few jobs open so send us your OPML along with your cv and vcf to ste­fan (at) soo­cial (dot) com.

It’s the first time I see an OPML file asked for recruit­ing, but I find it bril­liant. Indeed, that seems the best way to deep-dive into a person’s per­son­al­ity. Of course, you can always edit some feeds and groups out, but at least for the items in, it’s easy to both see if you would fit into the team’s cul­ture and to check that you actu­ally read the feeds.

Sim­ple and brilliant.