( CNN ) -- Could the days of trying to cram all your professional accomplishments onto a single sheet of paper be a thing of the past ? Some job experts say we 're already there . With news that Facebook might be joining the ranks of online-employment brokers , it 's looking more and more like the old-fashioned resume might be growing obsolete . Facebook plans to launch its own jobs board , working with some existing sites to let users search listings , the Wall Street Journal is reporting . Yes , that 's right : People may be looking for jobs on the same site where photos of their youthful indiscretions could turn off potential employers . It 's not certain whether such a Facebook feature will pan out ( Facebook is n't commenting , and the Journal cites unnamed sources ) . But in many ways , we 're already in a post-resume era . What hiring manager is going to make a decision based on an e-mail attachment when they can browse your LinkedIn and Facebook profiles , read the gory details in your blog and hit Google to find out more about you -- good or bad -- all in one sitting ? And paper resumes ? Forget it . Between desktops , laptops , tablets and smartphones , some hiring experts say there 's little reason to peruse a dead-tree summary of someone 's career anymore . `` I do n't ever have anybody come in and hand me a paper resume , '' said Gretchen Gunn , a principal at MGD Services , a staffing firm in Stockton , New Jersey . `` Ten years ago , your fax machine was loaded when you came in in the morning . Not anymore . '' Gunn blogged about the trend in January , writing that when someone hands her a paper resume at a job fair , she hands it back and asks for an e-mail . Why ? `` Because that paper resume has little chance of leaving my roll-along briefcase , which houses my laptop , iPad and other electronics , '' she wrote . `` Our entire recruiting process is now online . '' Technically , Rachael King , who works on community engagement in San Francisco for software company Adobe , submitted a resume for her job . But it was just one digital blip that was `` pinned '' on a Pinterest board she created . Other pins included a listing of her public speaking engagements , links to news articles in which she 'd appeared , her blog and even an article on how to build a resume on Pinterest . She dubbed it her `` Living Resume , '' what she called `` an ongoing collection of decidedly cool things I 've done in my career , side gigs , and other projects . '' Some companies , especially those in the tech world , are going even further , saying they 're no longer interested at all in an applicant 's tried-and-true laundry list of jobs , education , awards and activities . Hiring managers often can gain a better sense of a person 's judgment , personality and communication skills by perusing their Twitter feeds or Tumblr posts , they say . Union Square Ventures , a New York venture-capitalist firm that invests heavily in tech start-ups , hired two analysts last month after a search that started last fall . But instead of soliciting resumes when the positions were announced , the firm asked for a glimpse at applicants ' `` Web presence . '' `` This could be anything from a Twitter account to a blog or Tumblr to a project you hacked together -- whatever represents you best , '' Union Square 's Christina Cacioppo wrote on the company 's site at the time . `` We expect your Web presence to represent who you are , not who you think an employer wishes you were , so please do n't waste time sanitizing your Web presence before sending us there . We get it . '' Applicants also were asked to create two Web videos of themselves , one saying why they wanted the job and the other answering the question : ' '' Which Web or mobile services most inspire you ? '' Gunn does n't think most employers are going to go that far , at least not in the near future . But she already uses many of the tools Union Square did to augment what a job applicant provides on their own . `` We look at Facebook ; we look at LinkedIn , '' she said . `` We love to see what you 've done on YouTube . That makes that person more three-dimensional . '' She suspects resumes are here for a while longer , but they may take new forms . `` The concept is not changing . That document , your life history of your work , is n't ever going to be obsolete , '' she said . `` It 's the vehicle that I think is changing . '' So , if LinkedIn and Twitter have replaced the fax machine of 10 years ago , what might a resume look like a decade from now ? `` I 'm waiting for holograms . Oh , come on : 'Star Wars , ' `` she said , referring to the image of a miniature Princess Leia from the 1977 movie . `` We were promised it way back then . If you want a serious answer , I think that 's where the technology is going to take us . ''
Thanks to growing number of Web tools , some say the resume is already obsolete . Job recruiter says she never accepts a paper resume . One New York firm asked for Twitter , blog posts , videos -- but not resumes . TL;DR The job search has become more about social networking than it used to be.