<story><title>No More Résumés, Say Some Firms</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enjo</author><text>Not to mention that I don&apos;t hae a twitter account, linked in profile of note, or really any meaningful web presence. I&apos;m kind of busy actually &lt;i&gt;making&lt;/i&gt; things.</text></item><item><author>droithomme</author><text>It&apos;s funny how the answer to not getting enough interest from qualified candidates is to make it more troublesome and time consuming to apply so that only unemployed people will bother.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s often heard that 3 page CVs are an abomination since no one has time to trawl through all that. But now, doing a video interview just to apply is OK to require, at least according to this article.&lt;p&gt;Where I work, CVs with cover letters are fine, links to web presences are fine, if someone wants to send a DVD or link to a private youtube exhortation that&apos;s also fine. Whatever works for the candidate we&apos;ll look at it.&lt;p&gt;It can be tedious to sort through all these CVs, assuming your company is able to get any relevant applications at all. But that&apos;s the price of acquiring talented people. Hiring someone for a creative job like development is as tricky as selecting a spouse to get married. It&apos;s a long term commitment that will affect both of you profoundly. It&apos;s not the same as buying a pound of hamburger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jtbigwoo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I&apos;m kind of busy actually making things.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Union Square Ventures is not looking for someone who likes to make things.  They&apos;re looking for someone who likes networking and getting noticed.  Or to put it another way, they&apos;re looking for someone who can find someone else who&apos;s making things.</text></comment>
<story><title>No More Résumés, Say Some Firms</title><url>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>enjo</author><text>Not to mention that I don&apos;t hae a twitter account, linked in profile of note, or really any meaningful web presence. I&apos;m kind of busy actually &lt;i&gt;making&lt;/i&gt; things.</text></item><item><author>droithomme</author><text>It&apos;s funny how the answer to not getting enough interest from qualified candidates is to make it more troublesome and time consuming to apply so that only unemployed people will bother.&lt;p&gt;It&apos;s often heard that 3 page CVs are an abomination since no one has time to trawl through all that. But now, doing a video interview just to apply is OK to require, at least according to this article.&lt;p&gt;Where I work, CVs with cover letters are fine, links to web presences are fine, if someone wants to send a DVD or link to a private youtube exhortation that&apos;s also fine. Whatever works for the candidate we&apos;ll look at it.&lt;p&gt;It can be tedious to sort through all these CVs, assuming your company is able to get any relevant applications at all. But that&apos;s the price of acquiring talented people. Hiring someone for a creative job like development is as tricky as selecting a spouse to get married. It&apos;s a long term commitment that will affect both of you profoundly. It&apos;s not the same as buying a pound of hamburger.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bryanlarsen</author><text>But pretty much anything anybody makes these days has a web presence.  In the case of most hobby projects, there are at least pictures on flickr.  Commercial projects have web presences.   For me, I could say &quot;I did version 1.0 of the software for this:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/le175ca.php&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.lumenera.com/products/surveillance-cameras/le175c...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>