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I think the best alternative to the Resume is Q&A. I think job applications should include a long list of questions to get specific information from the candida

I think the best alternative to the Resume is Q&A. I think job applications should include a long list of questions to get specific information from the candidate, which would (for example) show how much they know about coding, about working with peers, about what kind of company values they care about (if any). Of course, filling out the same hundred questions for every job would be terrible. So there should be a website that collects all the questions and lets you resend them to each employer, and lets the employer pick which questions they require and which they don't. The employer could also fill out questions from candidates, because the candidate should have a lot of questions for the employer. Candidate should be able to select the questions they want answers to. If both candidate and employer answer questions, an algorithm should automatically sort for which candidate and employer had the same questions, and (assuming multiple choice and weight/priority) which answers were the same or closest. In this way you could simply fill out questions and immediately find the job that matches you best, and the employers could find the candidates that match them best.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago
> Of course, filling out the same hundred questions for every job would be terrible. So there should be a website that collects all the questions and lets you resend them to each employer, and lets the employer pick which questions they require and which they don't. This is what I did with Obsidian.md, any questions for the applications will be copied and pasted to Obsidian with my answers. If I come across a different applications that have similar question, I look up in Obsidian and use my answer from there with small modification of my answer to fit their culture or mission statement. It helps a lot because often the company I applied for usually asked for Cover Letter. Obsidian.md have my cover letters for various companies I applied for and it is easy to look back to those and find the one that fits best or create a new entry with a copy of the previous letter and modify it from there.
nharada 5y ago
Would this just create a market for answers to the most common questions found at the large companies?
- 0xbadcafebee 5y ago
  I don't think so. There are so many roles at a company, and each one could have potentially hundreds of questions, and each team might be looking for different answers. Select between 4 answers, add a 6-degree weight, plus additional comments for each answer. For 100 questions, that's hundreds of millions of possible combinations. And many of the questions should be subjective or based on personal experience, so that you can find the person who matches what the team cares about. If you see two people with the same answers, it would be almost impossible for them not to have been copied. I guess the challenge would be to get companies to create good questions. A giant pool of community-curated questions for companies to start with would be good, and they should add questions from the team looking to hire.

Isthatablackgsd 5y ago

> Of course, filling out the same hundred questions for every job would be terrible. So there should be a website that collects all the questions and lets you resend them to each employer, and lets the employer pick which questions they require and which they don't. This is what I did with Obsidian.md, any questions for the applications will be copied and pasted to Obsidian with my answers. If I come across a different applications that have similar question, I look up in Obsidian and use my answer from there with small modification of my answer to fit their culture or mission statement. It helps a lot because often the company I applied for usually asked for Cover Letter. Obsidian.md have my cover letters for various companies I applied for and it is easy to look back to those and find the one that fits best or create a new entry with a copy of the previous letter and modify it from there.

nharada 5y ago

Would this just create a market for answers to the most common questions found at the large companies?

0xbadcafebee 5y ago
I don't think so. There are so many roles at a company, and each one could have potentially hundreds of questions, and each team might be looking for different answers. Select between 4 answers, add a 6-degree weight, plus additional comments for each answer. For 100 questions, that's hundreds of millions of possible combinations. And many of the questions should be subjective or based on personal experience, so that you can find the person who matches what the team cares about. If you see two people with the same answers, it would be almost impossible for them not to have been copied. I guess the challenge would be to get companies to create good questions. A giant pool of community-curated questions for companies to start with would be good, and they should add questions from the team looking to hire.