Thursday, March 17, 2011

Job Hunters, Prepare to Be Keyword-Friendly - Edward Tenner - Technology - The Atlantic

A perspective on automatic resume filtering…

Without blaming developers of software or the understaffed recruiters who often need to identify candidates from hundreds of applicants, I'm starting to wonder if automated screening may be blocking the peripheral vision that some candidates might have brought to their new jobs, their recognition of possibilities unknown to people too close to the narrow job description. War, exile, and forced migration can catalyze invention, filling what the sociologist Ronald S. Burt has called structural holes.

If everybody in an organization fits their job too well, the organization may become less fit.

Job Hunters, Prepare to Be Keyword-Friendly - Edward Tenner - Technology - The Atlantic

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