I wish there was a standardized format for a resume.

[michaelc@scholar.social]

I wish there was a standardized format for a resume. One that all the ATS folks and the employers and the job seekers could all point to. One that was flexible enough to handle weird situations like "no_start_date" and "no_start_reason" because you'd been volunteering for a year before getting hired for that exact job, or "job2_role3" when you'd moved around the org a bunch.

And then codify it. Just make key-value pairs for everything. Text file. JSON. Don't care. Send; everyone's happy.

[michaelc@scholar.social]

Okay, not *everyone.* The people who won't be happy with this are the ones who think their skills at formatting will be able to distract hiring managers enough that they won't understand this candidate isn't the best one for the job.

But I bet the hiring managers would prefer to get the best person, not the one that makes the information the prettiest. Unless that's part of the job, and then THAT goes into the portfolio link...

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@michaelc Europe did it with the Europass format, which was first distributed as Word and LibreOffice templates

[michaelc@scholar.social]

@oblomov Oh. My. God. This is exactly the thing.

I wonder if any US-based automated systems take this into account, or the entire US just decided "we're going to ignore the rest of the world and do our own thing that's not compatible with anyone else and then try to force everyone else to use our inferior thing!"

I already know the answer to this question, I think.

[jaranta@scholar.social]

@michaelc @oblomov Finland also has one specifically for academics, so when you apply for a academic job or grant, it's standardized.