I wish the powers would be would make their mind up. Some days, we're told, recruiters will run a mile from any candidates with a dodgy social networking profile - today, it's all about the social video CV.

Time has run a little piece positing the emergence of YouTube-like sites enabling people to upload video pitches for job openings are the next big thing.

How that's going to happen when so many recruiters don't even want to see a passport photograph clipped to a printed application is anyone's guess. Maybe video applicants aiming for jobs that list lip syncing or experimental soft drink/mint science are a shoe-in?