The Resume Is Dying, and This Is What’s Next
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The Resume Is Dying, and This Is What’s Next
Our online identities have gotten more sophisticated, but the conventions of a job search haven’t kept pace.
BY QUORAWhat are viable alternatives to resumes? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.
Answer by Sarah Nahm, CEO of Lever and passionate advocate for diversity in tech, on Quora:
I’ve definitely noticed a lot more grumbling about resumes in the past few years as our online identities have gotten more sophisticated (and interesting!) but the conventions of a job search haven’t kept pace. Some companies are taking action. Here are some interesting experiments or popular alternatives I’ve seen come out of Lever’s customer base:
Keepsafe, a mobile privacy company, declares that it forgoes resumes completely in their application process, asking instead for you to describe something you’ve recently built. They first got the idea after reading Aline Lerner’s shocking post on the low efficacy of resumes.
Speaking of Aline Lerner, she’s recently formed a company to offer an alternative to resumes, Interviewing.io, which offers a fully anonymized technical interview platform as a way to initially screen candidates on their chops alone.
And obviously, platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn offer the ability to apply with your profile, which increasingly includes content you wouldn’t normally find on a resume, like Projects, Posts, and social references. Other, more niche professional communities let you highlight all sorts of industry-specific experience. Behance allows designers to feature their work in rich multimedia as opposed to bullet points. A Coderwall profile lets a developer link their GitHub to feature repos and demonstrate how they’ve unlocked achievements. More and more of these kinds of online professional networks pop up all the time and the best recruiters I know are quite savvy about representing their own companies’ employees on the sites.
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How Much Will You Pay Me?
Everyday there’s atleast one engineer who asks me this question before I can introduce myself or Headout So far, I haven’t been able to come up with an ideal way to respond to something so direct. It’s like going to a car showroom and the salesman asks if you’re carrying your chequebook without telling you what car he’s talking about or what it can do for you.
While I understand that money is vital. Considering the state of the education system in the country, engineers need to invest a considerable amount of money to obtain their coveted ‘Bachelor of Technology’ degree and they certainly expect the best ROI out of it (unlike the marketing folks of certain Indian startups). However, at Headout we’re rather biased towards candidates who bring in passion to the job, who think about ideas while others sleep on them and who care more about solving problems than just paycheques.
Having said that we obviously do not want you to do charitable work for us. A quick lookup on Glassdoor should be a good indication about the average salary for engineers and a gander at our careers page should let you know the extent to which we like to spoil our employees (not to brag but every Headout employee gets Free Uber rides, free laundry service, catered meals, gym reimbursement, COMPULSORY outings and a chance to work with some of the most interesting people around 
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So if you get a call from us, tell us about that whacky college project that your juniors still copy, tell us about that hackathon you won which your mum has no clue about, tell us about the browser extensions and macros you made to get a Tatkal ticket on IRCTC or impress us with your GitHub account full of dark green tiles. And trust us, if we like your work.. you won’t have to worry about how much we’ll pay you 
Mahesh Suthar
El Talentino @ Headout
@Alpha.Barood wrote:
How Much Will You Pay Me?
Everyday there’s atleast one engineer who asks me this question before I can introduce myself or Headout So far, I haven’t been able to come up with an ideal way to respond to something so direct. It’s like going to a car showroom and the salesman asks if you’re carrying your chequebook without telling you what car he’s talking about or what it can do for you.
While I understand that money is vital. Considering the state of the education system in the country, engineers need to invest a considerable amount of money to obtain their coveted ‘Bachelor of Technology’ degree and they certainly expect the best ROI out of it (unlike the marketing folks of certain Indian startups). However, at Headout we’re rather biased towards candidates who bring in passion to the job, who think about ideas while others sleep on them and who care more about solving problems than just paycheques.
Having said that we obviously do not want you to do charitable work for us. A quick lookup on Glassdoor should be a good indication about the average salary for engineers and a gander at our careers page should let you know the extent to which we like to spoil our employees (not to brag but every Headout employee gets Free Uber rides, free laundry service, catered meals, gym reimbursement, COMPULSORY outings and a chance to work with some of the most interesting people around
So if you get a call from us, tell us about that whacky college project that your juniors still copy, tell us about that hackathon you won which your mum has no clue about, tell us about the browser extensions and macros you made to get a Tatkal ticket on IRCTC or impress us with your GitHub account full of dark green tiles. And trust us, if we like your work.. you won’t have to worry about how much we’ll pay you
Mahesh Suthar
El Talentino @ Headout
If that candidate knows so much than why will take a job…he can start his own organization
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