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posted by janrinok on Monday January 17 2022, @08:12PM   Printer-friendly

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @08:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 18 2022, @08:22PM (#1213655)

    Most interviews already include a technical portion, where there's a bit of hands on shared editor/compiler. The quality varies greatly. While I'm sure recruiters would love to pre-can this step, and provide the perfect candidate, nobody wants to do this just to get to the real interview, and recruiters are not qualified to assess such a phase, both because if they were, they would be working for higher pay as a programmer themselves, and because they don't work at the company they are hiring for, so they cannot assess properly. At best, they could provide a very mild and uniform test to distinguish between non-programmers and actual programmers, but that would end up with answers posted on whatever website, so nice try. Also keep in mind, this is a survey, co-sponsored by two platforms that specialize in providing the tools for this step, so yes they would love if their tools were used more widely, and recruiters are the next logical market for such tools.