Indeed SVP: CV's are a 'necessary evil'

Paul D’Arcy, Senior Vice President of Marketing at job site Indeed, explains to Recruitment Grapevine why he thinks CV’s are doing a ‘terrible disservice’ to modern day jobseekers and are hindering progression in employer diversity...

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CV’s do a terrible disservice to jobseekers. They are a very poor vehicle for representing what a candidate can bring to a job. When a recruiter looks at a CV, they typically spend just a few seconds and they focus in on the person’s name, where they live, which school they went to, the brand name of the employer that they worked for.

The set of things that people focus on when looking at a CV very quickly are signals that are full of bias, and only thinly represent the skills and abilities and what a candidate can uniquely bring to a job.