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Ask HN: Would this work? Resume into stories by sales person

5 points by IvarsIndriks ↗ HN
I noticed that many job seeking individuals struggles to write good resume and stand out of the crowd.

Solution: Transfer resume into deeply personal story by professional sales people to attract job opportunities and stand out of the crowd.

Would you use such service and how much you are willing to pay for it?

10 comments

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afarrell
Businesses (including nonprofits) hire people to cut costs/risks or raise revenue (or impact). How would a deeply personal story help convince a hiring manager that paying this person a competative salary would lead to the business value?
IvarsIndriks
Story of how you got to coding and stories about challenges will tell you more about person for hiring than just resume.
shoo
> stories about challenges will tell you more about person for hiring than just resume.

I agree, but if candidate pre prepares these stories they are likely to be able to frame the situation and their impact in a way that looks positive regardless of what the actual situation was. Process would select for people who can tell good stories, or pay copywriters to edit stories, rather than selecting people who are good at the role.

More information (from employer perspective) is gained by making this process interactive, at some cost of time and money to both parties.

overcode
The time and place for those is the interview stage.
notahacker
Or the cover letter, if "how you got into coding" is relevant to why you're likely to be good at this role
muzani
No, resumes are for screening someone with a glance, when there are 200 people to screen. If you want stories, link a blog or portfolio.
shoo
For any place with a reasonably competent hiring process, you won't get offered a job solely based on your resume. But you might not progress to next stage in application process if your resume indicates there is no chance that you are a strong fit for the role (e.g. in extreme cases, application for a dev role with no evidence of relevant work experience or study or personal projects). Resume doesn't have to be great, just good enough.

I find it easier to recommend hiring fresh grads with no industry experience & brief CVs who perform very strongly at hands on programming interviews versus people with extensive experience who can speak eloquently about their past roles but do not perform that well when skills are directly measured in (admittedly, contrived and fairly artificial) interview setting.

overcode
If an employer needs to see a resume first and what you apply with is not a resume, you won't even get past the first and most basic filter of the hiring process. There is no good reason to ever do this.
mkbkn
I would prefer to link that story (personal blog URL) in my traditional-style resume.
world32
I wouldn't use this, for the same reasons other people have said.

Though I would say props for trying to do some market validation and getting real feedback rather than letting an idea fester in your head without telling anyone. You will find an idea worth working on eventually.