Can We Finally Retire the Resume?
By Allan Schweyer
The Human Capital Institute

“Paperless recruiting will become the norm, where every aspect of recruiting is online. Resumes have become the dominant currency of recruiting, when they should have become the equivalent of the U.S. penny. Most resumes are nothing more than a document of light fiction that contains a few keywords and some contact information. Many of them are full of fluff or outright lies. Top performers are the best candidates, but the chances of a top performer having a well-developed, up-to-date, nicely formatted resume customized for your firm, are pretty slim. It's time for recruiters to recognize the many shortcomings of resumes and embrace the emerging technologies that can help identify top performers and assess their capabilities without the need for a resume.” ~ Dr. John Sullivan, San Francisco State University.

Indeed, there is no longer any reason for employers to rely on resumes, and yet the vast majority still do. Resumes are unstructured, difficult to search & compare, expensive to handle and frustrating to store and retrieve. In light of new and pending changes to the definition of an applicant from the OFCCP and EEOC respectively, resumes might even expose organizations to greater liability and higher compliance costs, in that they are more difficult to handle, classify and retrieve for audit purposes.