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I wouldn't recommend it for a number of reasons:

  1. If the resume is reviewed by the Human Resources department before it is sent to the actual group hiring, they might not be aware of what Stack Overflow is.
  2. There is nothing written that says the Stack Overflow reputation is always going to have a numeric values; they might decide at one point to change the value to a label, similar to what Slashdot did.
  3. If you provide a number then you would also have to provide your user name, if someone browses your answers they might decide they don't like the way you answered something.
  4. There really isn't anywhere to put such an item on a CV.

About the only place where it might make sense would be in a personal blog that you have, but even then it might not be something that you just want out there in the open, even if you have a high score.