When you think about mobile recruiting and career sites with mobile recruiting capabilities, one of the biggest barriers is the resume. How do you get the resume included from your phone?
I don’t think it matters as long as the mobile recruiting solution can scrape the candidate’s LinkedIn profile. Why? LinkedIn profiles are more accurate than resumes.
I didn’t say more complete. I said “more accurate”. Fewer lies. Here’s my official stance.
“LinkedIn profiles maintained by a candidate are more accurate than the resume maintained by the same candidate.”
Think about that one for a second. Wait for it – there you go – the clarity and realization that if you’re truly looking for “what’s up” with a candidate, you need to rely on the LinkedIn profile. Why is that true? Because there’s a community of co-workers, friends and past colleagues that always have access to the LinkedIn profile, and there’s no such community with constant visibility to a random resume the candidate sends in, and you have no means to circulate the resume to that type of community to fact check.
The result? People generally won’t lie in public via LinkedIn. With that in mind, the core elements at play in most LinkedIn profiles – the titles, the dates, etc. – are always going to be more accurate than the resume.
Here’s the tricky part – when you’re looking for a candidate to unfold what they did at ACME Inc., the LinkedIn profile doesn’t usually include the 5-6 bullet points you’re usually used to seeing on the resume, right? That’s a key component to understanding the context of what they did.
With that in mind, is the day coming (from an accuracy and honesty perspective) when we’ll ask candidates to update their LinkedIn profiles with more detailed information on what they did at ACME?
If you have over 100 contacts on LinkedIn, I’d doubt you’ll lie in a big way. Too much crowd-sourcing going on…
Source: http://blog.imomentous.com/linkedin-profiles-more-accurate-than-resumes/
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I don’t think it matters as long as the mobile recruiting solution can scrape the candidate’s LinkedIn profile. Why? LinkedIn profiles are more accurate than resumes.
I didn’t say more complete. I said “more accurate”. Fewer lies. Here’s my official stance.
“LinkedIn profiles maintained by a candidate are more accurate than the resume maintained by the same candidate.”
Think about that one for a second. Wait for it – there you go – the clarity and realization that if you’re truly looking for “what’s up” with a candidate, you need to rely on the LinkedIn profile. Why is that true? Because there’s a community of co-workers, friends and past colleagues that always have access to the LinkedIn profile, and there’s no such community with constant visibility to a random resume the candidate sends in, and you have no means to circulate the resume to that type of community to fact check.
The result? People generally won’t lie in public via LinkedIn. With that in mind, the core elements at play in most LinkedIn profiles – the titles, the dates, etc. – are always going to be more accurate than the resume.
Here’s the tricky part – when you’re looking for a candidate to unfold what they did at ACME Inc., the LinkedIn profile doesn’t usually include the 5-6 bullet points you’re usually used to seeing on the resume, right? That’s a key component to understanding the context of what they did.
With that in mind, is the day coming (from an accuracy and honesty perspective) when we’ll ask candidates to update their LinkedIn profiles with more detailed information on what they did at ACME?
If you have over 100 contacts on LinkedIn, I’d doubt you’ll lie in a big way. Too much crowd-sourcing going on…
Source: http://blog.imomentous.com/linkedin-profiles-more-accurate-than-resumes/
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Roze Tailer is experienced web scraping consultant and
writes articles on linkedin email scraping, linkedin
profile scraping, tripadvisor data scraping,
lawyers
data scraping, yellowpages
data scraping and product information scraping.
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