Narrow sense: video resume, like traditional text resume or electronic resume, is a form of publicity to show and sell yourself to employers or organizations. Video resumes, like text resumes or electronic resumes, have certain norms and standard formats.

Broadly speaking, video resume can show a person's temperament, image, job search direction and career ideal, and can be easily delivered to the employer together with text resume. Employers can watch the video resumes of job seekers while simultaneously reviewing the text resumes.