Resume & Interview – R.I.P. ???

Posted on | June 11, 2009 | No Comments

So I have been thinking about how to start a movement to kill the resume for some time now.  Most of this concern comes from spending some time in the recruiting business and watching my clients screen, qualify and even hire candidates based on their resume.  Now of course sometimes that happened because of the value I would provide in my screening process but on a whole, more often than not, people use the resume as the be all, end all to get grant an interview and even make a hiring decision in some cases.   

With the proliferation of the digital age and the shift happening in the workforce I believe we have finally started to move in the right direction.  A modified new direction.  We may be looking for the “right people, at the right time, for the right job”.  I was not smart enough to articulate this clearly but I have seen three really good pieces in the last couple of weeks which tells me I should use their words not mine…  Happy Hiring…

Seth Godin has a great piece here “Why bother having a resume” – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/03/why-bother-havi.html

My friend and former co-worker Scott Hajer wrote this piece on the digital resume… (This led me to Seth’s post) “A brave new resume” – http://cloudrecruiting.net/a-brave-new-resume/

The Heath brothers had this piece about hiring and the interview, or lack there of which is the next logical step in a changing the hiring process.  This piece appeared in the latest Fast Company.  “Made to Stick – Hold the interview” -  http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/136/made-to-stick-hold-the-interview.html

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