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It's time to ditch the CV: Why tech recruiters are changing how they hire:
More than half of recruiters are open to the idea of eliminating CVs from the hiring process in favour of an increase in skills-based assessments.
That's according to a survey conducted by developer hiring platform CodinGame and technical interview platform CoderPad, which found that recruiters are increasingly wary of the limitations of resumes and other traditional hiring techniques when trying to identify skilled candidates.
The survey argued that removing CVs from the hiring process would help open up the talent pool and make recruitment more diverse. Two-thirds (66%) of technology recruiters said bias is an issue in hiring, with resumes regarded as "a major contributory factor".
[...] Amanda Richardson, CEO of CoderPad, believes the hiring system is broken. "Part of what we're seeing is there are still companies that not only demand a computer science degree, they demand a computer science degree from one of five schools, or someone who's worked at one of five companies," Richardson tells ZDNet.
"No matter how you cut it...there just aren't that many bodies coming into the workforce. The opportunity to be smart about how you're recruiting, looking for skills and walking away from some of those traditional steps, is really a huge culture shift."
The argument for skills-based assessment tools centres on the idea that they remove bias in hiring by allowing employers to determine a candidate's suitability based on their performance alone, as opposed to any information contained within the candidate's CV that could influence a hiring manager's employment decisions.
Thanks to growing interest in coding and the proliferation of coding bootcamps, a computer science degree is no longer a prerequisite for a career in software development. That said, having a formal qualification certainly helps, and a number of major technology firms still insist on their employees having a fundamental grasp of programming theory.
"Both Stanford and MIT teach a class called 'How to Pass the Technical Interview' for credit," says Richardson.
"There's something broken in the world when you're taking a class on how to get the job at arguably the most highly qualified specialized schools in the country."
The good news is that, with technology jobs becoming increasingly platform-based, more companies are willing to hire candidates who can show aptitude in software tools, programming languages and frameworks used by the business.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @02:28AM (3 children)
(Score: 5, Interesting) by bradley13 on Tuesday January 18 2022, @10:16AM (1 child)
That depends. In my last industry job, I didn't code, but I was the technical PM. I specifically refused any supervisory authority - I didn't do personnel reviews or set salaries. My job was to protect my developers from the internal customers. I negotiated change requests, clarified requirements, set priorities, and defined what was going to go into development. Specifically so my developers could actually develop.
Not my favorite job ever, but it turned out to be very satisfying. Even the internal customers eventually realized that productivity was way up, once they were forbidden from interrupting the developers all the time...
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 23 2022, @02:22AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday January 18 2022, @05:23PM
> the ability to tell people to fuck off without getting fired
Do you appreciate how hard that can be? It's not an ability so much as financial security. Younger people in particular don't have that. Financial indentureship is one of the first employment traps an inexperienced new grad can fall into. It's become harder to avoid, thanks to the explosion in student debt.
The young grad with massive student debt who has overextended on the home and car, and has married and/or started a family, so that their life will fall apart if their income is ever cut, is in no position to refuse an unreasonable demand. The product must pass the tests! Stay late to "make it happen" any way you can, wink, wink. Be a real shame if you got a bad review, hint, hint. The bosses won't outright tell the flunkies to falsify the test results, but they leave plenty of hints that to them, fooling everyone, so long as the cheating works, is as good as honest work. If there is cheating, and it's caught, well, sucks to be you, the bosses are absolutely going to hang your sorry butt out to dry, because, you know, they didn't _tell_ you to do that.
Even when the bosses are bluffing with their threats, which is quite frequent, it's really really hard to risk your career on that. Got to have plan B, in case one of those times, they weren't bluffing.