The future is 100 page CVs! Why? You feed them to an LLM/RAG on the other end, whack it into the hiring company’s system prompt and the rating in stars is spat out the other end.
Ask HN: Why are we still using CVs like old times?
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#12it is likely that the CVs would be correctly formatted - should candidates be given a link to the template of the correct CV?
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#13I just use my LinkedIn profile as a CV. If for some reason they want a PDF copy, I just use the export to PDF functionality. I have gotten feedback from many recruiters that I have an awesome profile, and some use it as an example to show others how to build theirs.
Can you share your profile? how good is the exported PDF?
The reason some companies insist on a document is that they feed it to their HR systems, which is not (always) possible with Linkedin
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#14CVs are fine, alternatives are Linkedin, which are basically a digitalized version of a CV.
It's ok to sort through CVs, unless you are getting spammed, everyone behind a CV is a person and deserves some attention. There are many tools that help you do that as well.
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#15I just use my LinkedIn profile as a CV. If for some reason they want a PDF copy, I just use the export to PDF functionality. I have gotten feedback from many recruiters that I have an awesome profile, and some use it as an example to show others how to build theirs.
Can you share your profile? how good is the exported PDF? The reason some companies insist on a document is that they feed it to their HR systems, which is not (always) possible with Linkedin
See my about in profile
Re: Ask HN: Why are we still using CVs like old times?
#16I just use my LinkedIn profile as a CV. If for some reason they want a PDF copy, I just use the export to PDF functionality. I have gotten feedback from many recruiters that I have an awesome profile, and some use it as an example to show others how to build theirs.
Can you share your profile? how good is the exported PDF? The reason some companies insist on a document is that they feed it to their HR systems, which is not (always) possible with Linkedin
Just tested the PDF export. The format isn't really optimal and wastes a lot of space IMO. It's serviceable I guess. I'd still send it to anyone that asks for a PDF if they need something that isn't a LinkedIn profile.
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#17There was an HRXML spec back in the semweb era, I've always wondered what happened with that.
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#18What is so different about 2024 such that CVs are no longer applicable?
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#19Are you a human (being hired to work with humans), or an API?
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#20I’m also handling the interviewing process at a small company and I’m completely confused as to what you are having a problem with. How else would you do your first round of filtering without something like a CV? Is there a format you think would be better?
Honestly I care very little about how the CV is laid out/formatted. As long as I can parse (with my eyeballs) your work history, dates, and the tech you used then I have enough to make my decision.
The only CV that almost made me reject the candidate outright was a pdf that was not searchable. I’ll read the full CV of everyone I actually interview but if you don’t have at least some tech overlap with the stack I’m hiring for (or equivalent, such as I’m looking for Vue but if you have recent Angular/React then we will be fine) then I’m not going to waste my or your time.
If I can’t ctrl+f in your resume then you’ve failed.