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The basic resume should probably die a slow, painful death

The basic resume should probably die a slow, painful death

Sigh.

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Ted Bauer
Sep 07, 2017
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Literally do not (and have not ever) understand the basic resume. Why is this still a thing? In the era of LinkedIn, which is apparently worth $26 billion but has essentially no value, why are we still evaluating people off the basic resume? I'm confused.

Then I run into articles like this one about how "leading companies build the workforce they need" (…

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