If companies wanted switching jobs or hiring to be streamlined and simple, they wouldn't do the job games they play.
Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
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#12I have had a lot of success with "September 2019 - September 2020." Seems to work fine in nearly every case.
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#14I would have found it much more interesting and useful if the author had tried to sincerely answer or even ask the question of the title. Instead it’s just a complaint.
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#15Please insert girder.
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#16Parsing CVs is awful. We outsource this entire feature to Daxtra, who do a very average job (but, to be fair, better than anything we have time to write!).
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#17.docx
Was going to say PDF but this is close enough :)
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#18I would have found it much more interesting and useful if the author had tried to sincerely answer or even ask the question of the title. Instead it’s just a complaint.
I guess the answer must be: Companies have no incentive to make it easy to apply to their job without manual intervention. Which makes sense -- if it were easy enough to apply to companies automatically, I guess some people would just write a script to apply to every company in their field, right?
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#19There is, thanks to the semantic web (the real web 3 :) ). See for example the FoaF ontology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)
Is the “semantic web” used in sensible, productive ways these days or does it remain an academic daydream?
I’m highly skeptical of the whole concept and feel like I should have organically come across it by now.
Re: Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?
#20Why should there be? Resumes have to be read by humans to judge if they match what is needed. Checking boxes and matching buzzwords only gets you so far.
I think because some things like work history, education, they lend themselves to pretty standardized fields.
And we have to keep filling them out by hand ...