The Problem with Job Titles
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The Problem with Job Titles
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#2I think the results have to do with your questioning. For example, I don't want to spend my time testing, but I have to do it if I want to write high quality software. So some people give testing a 0, because it's not something you actively want to do. And others give testing a 5, because they know that whatever job they'll take, they probably have to test their code. I don't really see much difference to the classic self-made bullet-point-list of skills.
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#3So, let's plug these shapes into a regressor / ranker / classifier, along with some possible target variables (career path, survival rates, yearly office peer ratings, salary after 5 years,) for as many balanced samples as possible, and see what predictive power these might have!
Or, I guess the graph itself could also be considered a resume differentiator / sales technique.
Edit: Oh, I see. They're heavy on the highly personalized matching angle.
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#4Fascinating approach to the matching.
"No CVs" sounds awesome, but I think companies would ask applicants for their CVs in the end anyway.
Love d3 animations on the landing page.
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#5A pretty good way to find people that you want to hire. Perhaps if we can add some experience graphs along with these, we can get a good platform up that actually makes head hunting really easy for small companies who do not have the time or the money to do this properly.
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#6Interesting and thought provoking article. I wonder if this could take off as a concept and change the way we define ourselves? I like the concept.
One thing that is lacking however is perhaps an understanding of what job titles are today. I haven't formally been handed a job title in many years, so long in fact that I honestly can't recall which previous employer was the last to grant me a specific pigeon hole at the personnel level. (Yes, I deliberately use the antiquated term for HR to illustrate how long ago this may have been).
In this day and age job titles for me and my peers appear to be ultra concise summaries of what capacity people are most recently working in, as opposed to formally designated titles. Perhaps we're stretching the word title.
Regardless, the fact that these charts better represent the fluid nature of how interests and activities change, this would be a nicer solution. Two thumbs up.
P.S. I say this with no snarkiness, I wish people would proof read articles they publish.
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#7I would love to see potential candidates add this work shape for their CVs
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#8A pretty good way to find people that you want to hire. Perhaps if we can add some experience graphs along with these, we can get a good platform up that actually makes head hunting really easy for small companies who do not have the time or the money to do this properly.
thanks sparaker - its Hung, CEO of Workshape - thanks for your comment. Time / money is what we want companies to save, not only at point-of-hire but also in terms of hiring the right person for the opportunity. Its a blind match on both sides, so we think both parties are able to trust the match more than they would in traditional job discovery platforms.
As for experience / bio - we're probably pull in social data via an aggregator at some point.
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#9I like their ideas, but the only thing that changed for me with the shapes is, that I have a profile that doesn't match any job offering. So no win for me, lol
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#10Seems like some pretty cool concept. Love the visualisation - quite a different way to think about job descriptions.