Ask HN: Why are we still using CVs like old times? I've been reviewing applications for my company and I've realized that for small companies, it's still a manual work of reviewing "sheet" like CVs. Some people can't format them properly so it's even worse. It's 2024, what alternatives do we have to paper styled CVs? |
Honestly I care very little about how the CV is laid out/formatted. As long as I can parse (with my eyeballs) your work history, dates, and the tech you used then I have enough to make my decision.
The only CV that almost made me reject the candidate outright was a pdf that was not searchable. I’ll read the full CV of everyone I actually interview but if you don’t have at least some tech overlap with the stack I’m hiring for (or equivalent, such as I’m looking for Vue but if you have recent Angular/React then we will be fine) then I’m not going to waste my or your time.
If I can’t ctrl+f in your resume then you’ve failed.
If companies insist on filling in a web template, my experience is they have inflexible ERP systems and I'd rather not work there so I don't demand that either.
A CV's fine. I also print them. It costs less than $0.10 per page. How 1993.
It's ok to sort through CVs, unless you are getting spammed, everyone behind a CV is a person and deserves some attention. There are many tools that help you do that as well.
I have gotten feedback from many recruiters that I have an awesome profile, and some use it as an example to show others how to build theirs.
The reason some companies insist on a document is that they feed it to their HR systems, which is not (always) possible with Linkedin
Which direction do you want to push things?
Keep the paper in a person's hand as long as possible - we may not like what happens on the other end of the spectrum.