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Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by lusus_naturae »

SamBam wrote: post #6
lusus_naturae wrote: post #2

Personal 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.

Per my experience I end up on the main page first, and on my monitor I can see at least 3-4 posts without even scrolling.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by hdjjhhvvhga »

> Now, it’s pretty early to be dropping an Einstein quote, but I’m doing it anyway: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

While the quote is catchy and viral, and fits many situations, Einstein has never said that. Call me biased, but when you work in tech, you need to be precise.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by perfect-blue »

lusus_naturae wrote: post #11
SamBam wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Per my experience I end up on the main page first, and on my monitor I can see at least 3-4 posts without even scrolling.

Is it really that apocalyptic? What’s the big deal. Honest question.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by diogenes4 »

tkiolp4 wrote: post #13

Im my more than 10 years of experience as a software engineer, I’ve never used once indeed.com. It always looked to me as a place where 90% or more of the job ads are either scam or of very little quality.

So of course, the vast majority of job postings are not for software engineering. Indeed is absolutely king when it comes to job postings. I work at a warehouse and they only posted through indeed.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by colesantiago »

In the age of AI, GPTs, LLMs, etc, CVs are completely over as they are now to be assumed to be generated.

Only real world projects (not toy demos), years of experience, and other particularly interesting (but relevant) hobbies would work although I'm not sure they count here. I've now seen companies raising their ask for Masters - PhDs for SWEs due to this demand.

What works best unfortunately is being hired/acquired by FAANG, working at hedge fund, and or a degree at a prestigious elite universities (top 0.01%) to rise above the pile.

For tech, now that there is a flood of FAANG employees from recent layoffs, the job market is only going to get tougher in tech on a herculean scale.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by jdechko »

lusus_naturae wrote: post #2

Personal 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.

Best thing I ever did was unfollow everyone in my LI network. I don’t see any of the toxic positivity posts, or the “I’m so proud of myself” posts or the “I accepted X position with Y” posts.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by midasuni »

perfect-blue wrote: post #14
lusus_naturae wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Per my experience I end up on the main page first, and on my monitor I can see at least 3-4 posts without even scrolling.

Is it really that apocalyptic? What’s the big deal. Honest question.

Fees like a browser extension could block such posts if someone’s really bothered.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by BossingAround »

readyplayernull wrote: post #8

The 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!?

I was honestly surprised I had to create a WD account to finish a job application. WD is a horribly slow piece of SW that I hope I won't have to use again. Sadly, it is getting very popular.

Re: Why Resumes Are Dead and How Indeed.com Keeps Killing the Job Market

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Post by [deleted] »

readyplayernull wrote: post #8

The 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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