Saw this article too recently. Not sure I agree / get it: people applying micro-tags to their resumes are people who want to be found, so most likely they're mere "active job seekers"?
1. As an employer I swiftly discard resumes in which people call themselves "energetic", "great team player" , "closer" or "funny" - how objective can anybody be when applying tags to themselves?
2. My definition of the above tags is likely different from yours or anybody else anyway, so how do I interpret such tags without knowing the person? One thing is for sure: no search engine can assess whether a person who tags himself as "funny" actually is kind of funny, right? But you and I can do so for sure.
What I do attach great value to is people being willing not just to search & find but also to vouch to me for people they know, and vouch for me as an employer to them. I'm interested in results of tagging not the tags themselves.
I'm only interested in objective hard metadata: "Gautam made 17 referrals for 5 companies and 4 times out of 17 he contributed to an actual hire, and in case of H3.com he was rewarded $6,750 for his valuable contributions".
Saw this article too recently. Not sure I agree / get it: people applying micro-tags to their resumes are people who want to be found, so most likely they're mere "active job seekers"?
ReplyDelete1. As an employer I swiftly discard resumes in which people call themselves "energetic", "great team player" , "closer" or "funny" - how objective can anybody be when applying tags to themselves?
2. My definition of the above tags is likely different from yours or anybody else anyway, so how do I interpret such tags without knowing the person? One thing is for sure: no search engine can assess whether a person who tags himself as "funny" actually is kind of funny, right? But you and I can do so for sure.
What I do attach great value to is people being willing not just to search & find but also to vouch to me for people they know, and vouch for me as an employer to them. I'm interested in results of tagging not the tags themselves.
I'm only interested in objective hard metadata: "Gautam made 17 referrals for 5 companies and 4 times out of 17 he contributed to an actual hire, and in case of H3.com he was rewarded $6,750 for his valuable contributions".
Money talks and BS walks...