The job application and resume has not been used in requests for income for some time and has never been used with permission to complete job role requests in some areas.
With automation and standardization of job roles, removal of job titles, establishment of management groups, and focuses on tasks; many HR professionals consider the application and resume to be somewhere between irrelevant and overbearing. It provides too much information and much of it is not relevant to whether someone can complete a set of tasks each day for a period of time.
Organizations, enterprises, and independent workers often have a budget for making a task assessment. They don't really care if a person was able to complete a task or not, although they prefer that they find someone that can complete the tasks before the budget is exhausted. Even if a person can complete the tasks, they may not want the job. The persons that do want the job, can not complete the task and require various levels of training. Then there are personality assessments which are much simpler than most people think. Likely to get along in the workplace or not likely to get along in the workplace.
Combined with workers not staying at a job for more than 5 years, and completely changing job roles or sets of tasks, the resume is viewed more as a personal artifact. It makes a good timeline for family archives but has limited purpose in determining whether someone can complete a set of tasks within the allocated budget.
A more useful worker selection tool has less than 10 questions and only a few considerations.
last 5 years, or 60 months of workplace experience
| Job Role | Experience |
|---|---|
| Construction Laborer | 6 mo. |
| Warehouse Worker | 9 mo. |
| Inventory Manager | 10 mo. |
| Asst. Construction Manager | 24 mo. |
| Bookkeeper/Accountant | 11 mo. |
The worker may be interested in legal work and is open to processing legal requests, interviewing for suggested resolution of disagreement, drafting contracts, or making court appearances with case file and docket.
The set of tasks is a combined role meaning that they will be doing full case management across multiple cases. Mostly they will be processing legal requests and making requests for resolution or documenting proposals. On occasion they will be drafting new contracts for review and they will also be making appearances before a judge with a provided case file. The docket being the court schedule and topic.
The resume with the workers picture, non plagiarized work description, abbreviated task lists, exact start dates and end dates, and the name of the companies where they completed each set of tasks adds very little to a conversation on approving them to complete a certain set of tasks at the current workplace.
These are often reviewed after an approval has been made for conflict of interest and it is often automated. Essentially, a worker is checked for having completed the same job role at a competing firm in establishing the final policy for their set of tasks and which projects, assignments, or job roles they get to work with. While the resume provided some of this information in the past, the limit of 1 page and the requirement for a short description causes a lot of pertinent information to be omitted. Other information is covered by privacy rights or workplae ethics.
Besides this updated process for approving workers or declining an offer from a job seeker. Many people work with portfolios. This requires a screening process for conflict of interest and attorneys must often approve someone to work on a similar project for a competing firm. There is often extensive documentation of similarities, differences, and when a worker might breach the trust of each firm.
Overall, this works well because workers have their own documentation on whether a work arrangement is ethical. If they are unsure or it is more likely than not that it will be ethical, then they can request assessment or interview. If a firm reaches out to someone with a portfolio, they may not be able to provide a resume for confidentiality reasons. However, they can conduct an assessment of requirements, do a conflict of interest check, and if the terms are agreeable, they can continue with the firms assessment and interview process.
For various reasons, a workplace profile is often preferred of approved job roles, active job roles, recent job roles within the last 5 years, and access rights to any workplace systems they need to complete their tasks. The resume being placed on a personal timeline of workplace achievements and updated every 5 years.
Published: 2025-10-24
Last Updated: 2025-10-24
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