Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market
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Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market
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#2Personal websites or linkedin profiles for non-techies would address a lot of the problems he's describing. Actually, linkedIn makes sense for everyone as the profile outline is standardized across users, so anyone interested can scrape info as needed.
edit to say that there needs to be a less social version of linkedin, so just a profile without any of the cringe-inducing toxic positivity.
Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market
#3get last few employments through linkedin. never heard of indeed.
Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market
#4Personal websites or linkedin profiles for non-techies would address a lot of the problems he's describing. Actually, linkedIn makes sense for everyone as the profile outline is standardized across users, so anyone interested can scrape info as needed. edit to say that there needs to be a less social version of linkedin, so just a profile without any of the cringe-inducing toxic positivity.
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#5I've never gotten any contacts through Indeed, unless we're talking about small staffing firms fishing lowballing and fishing for my resumes.
Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market
#6Personal websites or linkedin profiles for non-techies would address a lot of the problems he's describing. Actually, linkedIn makes sense for everyone as the profile outline is standardized across users, so anyone interested can scrape info as needed. edit to say that there needs to be a less social version of linkedin, so just a profile without any of the cringe-inducing toxic positivity.
I have a profile up on linkedIn which I update occasionally, and never see any of the posts or social media aspects of the site. I'm not sure if another site is needed, you can just not engage with it.
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#7Not sure if all this matters - at the end of the day, resumes are just a filtering mechanism, and then most startups/companies should set up 15-minute screeners and also do work assessments before hiring.
Not sure how relevant this top of funnel problem is.
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#8The worst resume forms are those from Workday, I run from them like the plague. You will probably need a new email to create an account for each job application. And if you get the job, you'll have to deal with their unbearable UX where nothing can be reached directly, but needs you to dive in a menu to a page that requires clicking a box to a link to a page with a small grid view. What were they thinking!?
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#9While my sympathy goes out to this person, I think this entire long, rambling, post could be condensed to a paragraph, or even a sentence: "It was a mistake for me to use Indeed.com."
If you want the job (of finding leads, and finding jobs) done right, hire a professional -- a recruiter who will charge a fee and is aligned towards you finding a job. Trying to cold-apply to every single job with a spray and pray approach is about as fruitful as cold calling every company you can to sell a product which may or may not apply to them. People hate middlemen until they use non-curated marketplaces with low quality or outright fake inventory. Then they begrudgingly realize why the middleman came into existence in the first place.
Make peace with the middleman. Find the competent ones and build relationships with them. If you do that, you may not always have the best job in the world, but you won't be so woefully out of touch with reality that you write a blog post like this blaming something that's clearly a consequence of your own actions on the rest of the world.
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#10Never used indeed.com once.
But...people should know that these sites, and recruiters, are basically hiring theater. Almost all jobs (perhaps excepting FAANG meat grinder) are filled through personal connections.