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> If resumes could be standardized and easily searchable for information it would help find candidates much more accurately and quickly without having to read.

by pyrale 5y ago

> If resumes could be standardized and easily searchable for information it would help find candidates much more accurately and quickly without having to read. I see how that can be useful from the recruiting side of the table, but fail to see how the candidate benefits.

SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
Think back to the first time you wrote a resume. For me and all of my college buddies at least, it was super stressful, because we had no idea what it was supposed to look like and nothing but vague rumors to go on. If there were a straightforward canonical answer for how my resume should be formatted it would have saved me quite a bit of work and quite a bit of stress that I was doing it wrong.
- jrockway 5y ago
  A standard requires people to agree. When I was in college, I was told that a resume was a list of buzzwords and past jobs. 1 page max. That got me quite a few jobs. When I interviewed at Google, people were like "this is it?" when looking at my resume (not that it mattered). I started doing interviews and saw the resumes that ended up at Google and they were all multi-page affairs with details about all the projects you worked on at a job. I started doing that, only to be told "wow, that's a really long resume". (Hint: if your role requires 10 years of experience, applicants are probably going to have a long resume!) The key point here, I guess, is that a lot of people have told me my resume is in the wrong format, but I still got the job. What's the right format for one employer is the wrong format for another employer. So there is no way to win. I now have no clue how to write a resume, but it also doesn't seem to matter. (Still bitter about how few people ever look at my Github, though. People put that as a custom field in their automated system, and then the interviewers have nothing to say about my projects!)

by pyrale 5y ago

SpicyLemonZest 5y ago

Think back to the first time you wrote a resume. For me and all of my college buddies at least, it was super stressful, because we had no idea what it was supposed to look like and nothing but vague rumors to go on. If there were a straightforward canonical answer for how my resume should be formatted it would have saved me quite a bit of work and quite a bit of stress that I was doing it wrong.

jrockway 5y ago
A standard requires people to agree. When I was in college, I was told that a resume was a list of buzzwords and past jobs. 1 page max. That got me quite a few jobs. When I interviewed at Google, people were like "this is it?" when looking at my resume (not that it mattered). I started doing interviews and saw the resumes that ended up at Google and they were all multi-page affairs with details about all the projects you worked on at a job. I started doing that, only to be told "wow, that's a really long resume". (Hint: if your role requires 10 years of experience, applicants are probably going to have a long resume!) The key point here, I guess, is that a lot of people have told me my resume is in the wrong format, but I still got the job. What's the right format for one employer is the wrong format for another employer. So there is no way to win. I now have no clue how to write a resume, but it also doesn't seem to matter. (Still bitter about how few people ever look at my Github, though. People put that as a custom field in their automated system, and then the interviewers have nothing to say about my projects!)