Haven't been in job market for quite some time.
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LOL!
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(1) You should always have a resume--either pdf or docx format--preferably both, in addition to something that gives your career highlights on LinkedIn. It may be a bit old fashioned, but if you go for an interview and the person stuck with the initial screening is trying to figure out how to avoid asking you how you spell your last name so s/he can find the file with your resume on the computer, it helps if you can just hand him/her a copy. It automatically gives you points for being prepared, and helping someone else avoid embarrassment. Also, there are times when you may want to just upload a pdf copy of your resume instead of giving an employer access to your LinkedIn site. (Like the government.) (2) In my experience, if you are in management or sales, you get jobs based primarily on networking--it's who you know. If you are an engineer, you get a job based on what you know. And yes, Google does expect more than most from engineers. IT it's not only what you know, but the willingness to do 24/7 availability and also put up with verbal abuse from cretins in legal and HR who have fits every time their printers malfunction. Of course none of them ever bothered to read the manual.... That's YOUR job.
Anonymous140214, it's never about what you know. It's always about who you know...You should have learned that lesson by now. Do you really think you as an engineer is really that much better than some other person? So how else to you distinguish yourself from everyone else?
Cronyism
The hiring process these days is exactly the same as the hiring process of the past few years. If you need a job, you call up your old contacts/managers that are now working elsewhere and you say "hey, remember me and what a wonderful job I did??? You got any excellent opportunities"