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Ask The Headhunter® - Resume Blasphemy
- In this new era of reduced budgets, open-ended hiring freezes, and a shape-shifting workforce of career changers, relocators, and solopreneurs, the concept of a resume and a job board seems comically antiquated.
from ‘Deep’ Job Platforms and How to Build Them | Andreessen Horowitz by D'arcy Coolican
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- We need resumes that include transition and points of inflection.
Bulletpoints of accomplishments can get redundant and reductive. With AI on the rise, just doing the job might not the most important thing to prove. Things are changing quickly.
We need resumes that show agility– an ability to learn and adapt.from [ The Future of Resumes ] — CAVEDAY
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- Job descriptions are never exhaustive, even from the beginning. They represent a set of needs for a specific context and time, which after a few months no longer reflects reality. Yet companies hire people based on their ability to match that fixed job description. They hire for the short-term.
Why start from something so specific? Instead, find peo... See morefrom Hiring Humans, Not Resources by Sharan Bal
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“Hire for soul, not role”
- Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
from Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz
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- Reduced to its simplest form, LinkedIn is a digital resume. A profile consists of your past work experience, education, skills, and references. The posts, comments, and messages are like a cover letter. But we’ve long decided that there are better ways to showcase your ability than a list of the places you’ve worked, the school you went to, and a h... See more
from LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe - Divinations by Fadeke Adegbuyi
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Another example is hiring. Before I came back to academia a couple of years ago I was out doing startups. What I noticed is that when people hire they are almost always hire based on experience. They're looking for somebody's resume trying to find the person who has already done the job they want them to do three times over. That's basically hiring
... See morefrom slope_vs_starting.md by gist.github.com
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