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I can see why the demise of CV/Resume is discussed a lot but I don’t see it going anywhere because it is so easy to automate the reading as an initial screening
by simonbarker87 5y ago
I can see why the demise of CV/Resume is discussed a lot but I don’t see it going anywhere because it is so easy to automate the reading as an initial screening.
Sadly most hiring practices are about minimising the chance of making a bad hire rather than maximising the chance of a great hire and the resume provides a lot of good initial signals to that end without a human needing to be involved.
I would love the CV to go away but I don’t see it, LinkedIn does a good job of providing an alternative but it’s really just a CV with social signals so not a whole lot different.
- swiley 5y ago>LinkedIn No! Vendor lock-in Horrible privacy track record "Dark-patterns"/manipulation before it was even popular Absolutely not.
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- laurent92 5y agoAnd if you had been on the receiving end: It would prompt you dozens of times, every month if necessary, if you didn’t open a LinkedIn account with the same email address as your high school janitor used when she invited you. To this day I still have the automated rule that classifies LinkedIn email as spam. Their spam score must be the highest of the world.