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This would be great, if you're right, because this is how we get to a place where we maintain our resumé in one place (LinkedIn) and don't have to play the whol
by dimino 10y ago
This would be great, if you're right, because this is how we get to a place where we maintain our resumé in one place (LinkedIn) and don't have to play the whole "Please upload your resumé. Now please enter in all the details of your resumé." hellhole.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoI get messages through LinkedIn asking for my resume. Also, why would it be great for a company to exclusively maintain your resume?
- shimon 10y agoA few reasons: - There's one widely accessible database where resumes can be found. Since many people want to be found by prospective employers, this gives them an obvious place to put it. - The resume format can be standardized, so you can focus on meaningful differences instead of the cognitive challenges of extracting meaning from a heavily stylized document. - There can be a commonly available API for exposing this information e.g. in job applications (see "Apply with LinkedIn", which does exist). - Because it's a centralized database, it's more up-to-date with professional developments and changes of contact information. Not to say that it has to be a single company, let alone a linkedin-style company, maintaining all that infrastructure. But there is definitely value to a standardized infrastructure, and a company like LinkedIn seems to be a pretty successful way to build that.
- Retra 10y agoThere are just as many benefits to a standardized infrastructure as there are downfalls caused by adopting the wrong standard, by forcing people onto it, or by using it for too long.
- ethbro 10y agoWasn't that what the whole LinkedIn "I vouch this person knows X" was supposed to be about? I assumed that was basically for the purpose of ignoring your resume and selling recruiters a more accurate social graph backed summary of your skillet.
- ssharp 10y agoThere is a Fortune 200 headquartered in my area that, by far, has the worst application process and software I've ever seen. Aside from REQUIRING you to type in information like your high school's address and your high school GPA, they also have pre-screening booby-traps which you may need to lie to get past (e.g. my wife was applying for an HR job there and they asked if she had a bachelor's degree in HR, which she didn't, she has a JD and has worked in HR for years and she was filtered out of the applicant pool because of that). One of the last pieces of the process is answering a few long-form answers on why you'd be a good fit. They have four or five questions but the gotcha is if you lose focus on the textfield and have to click it again, it erases your answer.
- hackaflocka 10y agoGreat story. It's a sure sign that a strong bureaucracy has set in when one sees this. It's common in government organizations, but becoming more common in non-government (especially large) organizations.
- stcredzero 10y agobecoming more common in non-government (especially large) organizations. Been like that for awhile. You're just getting to know more of the vast ocean of all the bureaucratic mindset that is out there.
- hackaflocka 10y agoI think it's a strategy by "those in power" to tightly control who gets hired. They make the application process so bad that people with options opt out of applying.
- rhizome 10y agoIt's common on Craigslist amongst the spamming services [sic] like Resumator, Sourcery, etc. Furthermore, experience has taught me that any time I see a job ad on LinkedIn that says, "Apply on Company Website," I assume there will be a tedious form to fill out (not to mention account creation).