The trend has been the same since the late 20th century: a company posts a job in a newspaper or online, you apply for it by sending your detailed resume – occasionally alongside a cover letter – and you hope to be selected for an interview and eventually accepted for the job. Sounds easy, right?
But actually resumes are absolutely despised by both parties: applicants have to try every trick in the book to beat their deadly competition – often resulting in more than a little exaggeration – while recruiters have to study hundreds of such documents and decide the quality of people without even meeting them face to face. This is why many believe that the age of the paper resume should come to an end, or at least it has to undergo radical changes.
And the future promises exactly that. Read More…