
Hiring managers if you want to find talented people, rely less on resumes and more on interviews.
I think we have all had the experience of knowing that we could do the job but the feedback from the recruiter is that your resume was rejected because you didn’t have skill X, Y, Z. No chance to respond if you had the skill or not. Just a flat rejection as though your resume can list every technology/skill that there is.
How can this help a company? If someone is experienced and smart and they are interested in your company, have a quick conversation with them. I have noticed that conversations have become less and less time. The worst companies think they can evaluate someone in 15 minutes. What they are confirming is their own bias. You have to be open to listening to someone, and you don’t get to know someone in 15 minutes.
The companies that find candidates that have the skills they want on their resumes are often the worst-skilled people. They do keyword stuffing which anyone can do. Then they study the typical questions lazy hiring managers ask and get the job. Then they leave because they can’t do the job, or do the job poorly. Knowing things is not a substitute for having skills, but it is only part of it. You have to have had experience, you have to be passionate to care about what you do. Lots of people have the degree, knowledge and don’t do a damn thing. They are not motivated to care and they won’t care about you. But they have the keywords in their resume and got the job.
Hiring is so screwed up. Look at people in totality not in one shallow-minded aspect like keywords on a resume.