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humanodon  ·  3896 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: To get a job, write your story instead of a resume

    I want to work with people who are genuinely interested in the things they do and the things around them.

I feel like this is the heart of what many hiring managers are after, but the structure of how companies hire gets in the way of that. I get that technology makes it easier to sort things (like resumes) but the fact is, we don't have technology that can really crystallize people in some kind of format that is easy for hiring managers to access.

I get what this guy in the article is saying, but this is the whole point of the interview process and in fact, all the technology in use now does, is limit the number of applicants who qualify for interviews and it's one of the inherent weaknesses of the written form: if the reader is not receptive to the content, then there's nothing that will make them read it. The perfect applicant for a job can be weeded out by something as simple as someone else's bad day.

As an aside: that's pretty damn cool that you get to play with holograms. As far as you know, will we be seeing holograms used in media more often any time soon?