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Resumes and CVs are fascinating to me, as much for what they represent and say as for what they fail to demonstrate and accomplish.

I’ve had reason to cobble together a few resumes over the past decade-plus, and it’s always been a somewhat comedic experience because little of what I’ve done since 2009 fits cleanly into the expected format.

I know quite a few other people who have the same issue: the credential-filters used in some industries leave out many potentially valuable applicants, but they’ve typically been considered necessary as a means of sorting professional wheat from chaff for so long, the idea of doing away with them has become borderline sacrilege.

This is an interesting piece about what happens to such filters when we’re in a tight labor market (which we are right now in the US and many other countries): https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-05/job-market-tightness-forces-work-requirements-rethink

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