https://www.businessinsider.com/hiring-managers-arent-reading-resumes-slop-2026-3
The résumé has been relegated.
Research has long shown that résumés alone with impressive companies and years of experience aren't great predictors of success in a new job. Now, in the age of Gen AI slop, "the résumé is almost worthless because they all read the same," says Michelle Volberg, founder and CEO of Twill, a recruiting software company.
Some are focused more on workers' real-time abilities than if they've worked at a Big Tech company or went to an Ivy League school. A new survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers found that 70% of employers say they're using skills-based hiring, which prioritizes practical abilities and aptitudes over credentials like degrees and years of experience.
Bolun Li tells me he ran into this disconnect when he was working on his first fintech startup in college. He would hire engineers with the "perfect résumé" from Duke University, where he was also enrolled, but found his hires "couldn't build anything," he tells me. "You can't look at people's résumés to know if they're good at what they do. I always had this notion that I need to look at people's work to hire someone, versus looking at what they say they've done."
