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After 40+ years, you STILL have to manually add your resume to a million different sites and services. Hell, I looked at a LinkedIn job yesterday that wanted m

After 40+ years, you STILL have to manually add your resume to a million different sites and services. Hell, I looked at a LinkedIn job yesterday that wanted me to sign up for 'neuvoo' crap to apply. Wasn't one of the original benefits for job applicants supposed to be a single resume to maintain and easier job application? Seems like you do more data entry now then back in the 80s when you could just hand your resume to a recruiter that would re-work/re-type it if necessary, submit it to relevant companies, and come back to you with a list of places wanting to interview you... Also, not having even rough salary ranges in the ads can result in wasted time. edit: clarify resume thing

techbq 6y ago
yeah i can totally get it. But how do you expect it can be improved. Auto scanning of Resume and importing the fields from it should do the job?
- mech422 6y ago
  eh - standardized resume 'format' (file format)? 'scanning' is just stop gap because recruiting agencies have no incentive to play nice together. edit clarified to file format
- mech422 6y ago
  oh - also, being able to filter by 'travel required' is nice. And 'remote' doesn't mean '25%+ travel required' (looking at you AWS...)
giantg2 6y ago
To me, it says a lot about the company if they make you use an old multi page form to fill out all the info. Why would I want to work for a place that has that sort of bureaucracy and outdated tech? I love places that ask you one page of multiple choice questions and then you upload your resume. At least the company knows about OCR and isn't wasting time with individual fields.
perl4ever 6y ago
neuvoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau ?
- mech422 6y ago
  some site I guess: https://neuvoo.com/ https://neuvoo.com/ Never heard of it, and was annoyed to get hijacked when I was trying to apply to a position. ZipRecruiter is another one

techbq 6y ago

yeah i can totally get it. But how do you expect it can be improved. Auto scanning of Resume and importing the fields from it should do the job?

mech422 6y ago
eh - standardized resume 'format' (file format)? 'scanning' is just stop gap because recruiting agencies have no incentive to play nice together. edit clarified to file format
mech422 6y ago
oh - also, being able to filter by 'travel required' is nice. And 'remote' doesn't mean '25%+ travel required' (looking at you AWS...)

giantg2 6y ago

To me, it says a lot about the company if they make you use an old multi page form to fill out all the info. Why would I want to work for a place that has that sort of bureaucracy and outdated tech? I love places that ask you one page of multiple choice questions and then you upload your resume. At least the company knows about OCR and isn't wasting time with individual fields.

perl4ever 6y ago

neuvoo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nauvoo or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nouveau ?

mech422 6y ago
some site I guess: https://neuvoo.com/ https://neuvoo.com/ Never heard of it, and was annoyed to get hijacked when I was trying to apply to a position. ZipRecruiter is another one