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"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."

"Matthew Brink, Career Services Center director, said he stresses to students the importance of networking with professionals and potential employers before they graduate. "Stick to a very steady dose of networking," Brink said. "Get in touch with a very high quality contact who can open doors and can introduce you to other folks and their network that can lead you to opportunities.""

Unfortunately, this advice comes in as students are actually graduating...

"The interviewer pulled up the web page for Klout.com-a service that purports to measure users' online influence on a scale from 1 to 100-and angled the monitor so that Fiorella could see the humbling result for himself: His score was 34. "He cut the interview short pretty soon after that," Fiorella says. Later he learned that he'd been eliminated as a candidate specifically because his Klout score was too low. "They hired a guy whose score was 67.""