Remember the goal is to find high quality candidates not shift though all of the incoming resumes. So if you have 2 open positions and 10,000 resumes just stop when you find enough high quality candidates.
I agree. Resumes are not as useful as a lot of employers want to believe. They represent what the candidate wants you to see of their history, and you get only one thing from that: Talking Points. Resumes put you both on the same page, bringing up topics the candidate is interested in talking about.
A poor salesman will have a hard time coming up with good or enough talking points. This alone is a reason resumes are mis-filtered.
I want to say that you should avoid filtering candidates based on their resumes, thanks to the holes, but that would be wrong: Sometimes, based on what they write down, you can make a reasonable judgment. For example, if you are looking for a software developer and the resume mentions NOTHING about that field, that is an easy filter.
Not quite so easy a filter: "I know C/C#/C++." but I always find that one amusing.
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Remember the goal is to find high quality candidates not shift though all of the incoming resumes. So if you have 2 open positions and 10,000 resumes just stop when you find enough high quality candidates.
I agree. Resumes are not as useful as a lot of employers want to believe. They represent what the candidate wants you to see of their history, and you get only one thing from that: Talking Points. Resumes put you both on the same page, bringing up topics the candidate is interested in talking about.
A poor salesman will have a hard time coming up with good or enough talking points. This alone is a reason resumes are mis-filtered.
I want to say that you should avoid filtering candidates based on their resumes, thanks to the holes, but that would be wrong: Sometimes, based on what they write down, you can make a reasonable judgment. For example, if you are looking for a software developer and the resume mentions NOTHING about that field, that is an easy filter.
Not quite so easy a filter: "I know C/C#/C++." but I always find that one amusing.