I’m hiring right now, and over the last month I have been seeing thousands of “perfectly tailored” resumes with cover letters that exactly match what we are looking for. All of these are programmatically generated and none of them are “real”. The pass rate from first round interviews for candidates applying with a traditional resume has fallen to nearly zero.
I recently started searching for services offering this just so I could understand why nobody is passing interviews.
The end result of this is, I have stopped using resumes. I’m only recruiting through conversations in technical group chats.
Résumés are dead.
Arthur
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2024-09-18 16:21:13
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