Articles tagged 'resume'

Recruiting and Staffing

The Traditional Resume Is Quickly Dying, Killed Off By Social Media

by on Apr 18, 2013, 8:10 AM  |  4 Comments
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Let’s face it: the traditional resume is dead.

While the resume has had a great run, new media has dwarfed its value. Leonardo da Vinci is credited with creating the first resume in 1492 when he used it to list his work when he introduced himself. But, would one of history’s most famous inventors still use it today?

Over the last 600 plus years, there have been two major changes that have massively impacted the ubiquity of the resume: the typed resume, and, social media. This last change will prove fatal for the lone one-pager.

In today’s global and connected workforce, why would either applicants or employers want such a limiting, lifeless, and stale document? Read more…

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Recruiting and Staffing

I’ll Say It Again: We Need to Get Rid of Resumes and Job Descriptions

by on Mar 7, 2013, 9:12 AM  |  5 Comments
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As some of you may know, I think the continued use of traditional, skills-infested job descriptions prevents companies from hiring the best talent available.

By default, they wind up hiring the best person who applies.

That’s the same reason I’m against the indiscriminate use of assessment tests. While these tests are good confirming indicators of on-the-job performance, they’re poor predictors of it (square the correlation coefficient to get a sense of any test’s predictive value).

Worse, they filter out everyone who isn’t willing to apply without first talking with someone about the worthiness of the position. Read more…

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HR News & Trends, Recruiting and Staffing

Are These the Most Outrageous Resume Blunders? You Be the Judge

by on Jul 11, 2012, 8:10 AM  |  7 Comments
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Do old-fashioned resumes still work?

There’s an ongoing debate that never seems to end over that topic, but whether they do or whether they don’t, one thing is certain: a lot of people seem oblivious to the dumb, silly and outrageous things that they put on them.

That’s what makes CareerBuilder‘s annual Most Outrageous Resume Mistakes so much fun, because no matter how little time recruiters and hiring managers actually spend on individual resumes (40 percent don’t spend more than a minute), these faux pas‘ seemed to stick with them, as CareerBuilder notes, “for all the wrong reasons.”

When asked to share the most memorable and unusual applications that came across their desk, hiring managers gave the following examples: Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Weekly Wrap: Does it Every Pay For Someone to Fib on a Resume?

by on May 18, 2012, 2:25 PM  |  3 Comments
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When is a fib really a lie? And when does a fib-turned-lie really matter?

It’s a question I keep rolling over in my mind, especially given all that has been written the last few weeks over the résumé inaccuracies — some may prefer a stronger, more judgmental description — by now former Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson.

He has been castigated for one seemingly minor, yet telling, résumé issue: he claimed he graduated from Stonehill College in Massachusetts with degree in computer science and accounting, when in fact, it was ONLY in accounting. Read more…

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HR News & Trends

Weekly Wrap: Why Are We So Quick to Dismiss the Good, Old Résumé?

by on Jan 27, 2012, 12:15 PM  |  1 comment
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Want some shocking news? The Wall Street Journal reports that, “Many job seekers have long suspected their online employment applications disappear into a black hole, never to be seen again … (and) their fears may not be far off the mark.”

I know; you are probably stunned and surprised that lots of people apply for jobs online and never hear anything back about it. Who knew?

The Journal also published another story (proving that dumb stuff comes in pairs) titled No More Résumés Some Firms Say that uses anecdotal evidence from three companies (yes, 3 is not a misprint) to declare that, “(businesses) are increasingly relying on social networks such as LinkedIn, video profiles and online quizzes to gauge candidates’ suitability for a job. While most still request a résumé as part of the application package, some are bypassing the staid requirement altogether.”

This makes me wonder: what’s wrong with the good, old résumé?

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HR Management, Recruiting and Staffing

Why Don’t We Do More About the Basic (But Less-Than-Ideal) Resume?

by on Jan 24, 2012, 7:45 AM  |  No comments yet
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Before the economy turned on its head in 2008, I received what seemed to be a pitch a week from a new company looking to revolutionize the standard resume.

If you worked in HR, you might have heard about these sorts of things, too. Turning your resume into a PowerPoint presentation, website, or video seemed to be the most popular ideas at the time.

Not much about those ideas stuck around. All of them took longer to review than regular resumes and often provided less helpful information. Still, you have to wonder why resumes continue to stick around. I haven’t met many recruiters that think they truly offer the value they could.

So why don’t we do more about it?

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