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As someone going through a job hunt at the moment, my biggest pain point is lack of standardization in resume formatting for online job portals. My biggest pain
by floppydisk 11y ago
As someone going through a job hunt at the moment, my biggest pain point is lack of standardization in resume formatting for online job portals. My biggest pain points are:
1) No standardized resume format that all job portals parse the same.
2) Inconsistent resume parsing and form filling meaning it's faster to do things by hand than upload a resume and edit.
A great place to start would be fixing this on the Job Portal side by creating and publishing a standard resume format that all of them can parse easily. If that means dumping my resume to a standardized XML format, I'll do it. I'm tired of wasting 20-30 minutes of my life filling out forms for one job because their resume parser can't tell me what they're looking for.
Having applied for a wide variety of jobs, I've noticed most of the non-major tech companies are using standard portals like Jobvite or Taleo to handle their application process. I think it'd be possible to upend this market by advertising you make it easier for candidates to apply which increases the likelihood of the company gets more qualified candidates. With the standardized resume format, you can increase filtering on the backend to help recruiters zero in on people they want to talk to increasing chances of getting a hit and finding the right candidate. Win-Win.