Resumes are an old formality that should be changed to take advantage of the advances in internet, networks, security, and the long established records on every person in America.
Currently, resumes are often paper based, sometimes unverified, and provided every time an applicant applies for a job. Resumes always have have some possibly inflated claims, contain typos, and often omit negative both and positive information. Employers often spend a lot of time and money verifying resumes.
Employment and education records are similar to criminal records, and they exist at every school and employer. Schools and employers already send (often updated) records and money to the government. Why not keep resumes out of the hands of job seekers, and something the employers or schools update and/or lookup records by connecting to a secured government database site?
This centralized site would be updated and used to retrieve resumes by schools or employers of start and stop dates, wages, reason for leaving, contact info, etc. This could have a place for applicants to add their notes. Everywhere else technology has made old ways obsolete, and there will always be more jobs (and even more people looking for them) so why not improve the function of resumes?
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Mark Shapiro, judgment expert, judgment broker, judgment writer, and a smile chaser.
http://www.JudgmentBuy.com
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