This document discusses career evolution and trends in recruiting from 2017 onwards. It outlines how the resume has evolved over time from paper to online, and how an individual's online presence and social media now factor greatly into hiring decisions. Current trends highlighted include the rise of short-term and freelance work, growing use of mobile messaging and automation in recruiting, and the challenges job seekers face from applicant tracking systems. Predictions for the future include personalization, marketing oneself as a personal brand, improved skills-based matching, and a potential divide between those who can access on-demand work and those who can't through automation.

1. CAREER EVOLUTION: 2017 &
BEYOND

2. Who am I?
James Clift
Founder/CEO
Wine drinker
Bike racer
Company Starter
90%
70%
40% 1.5 million members
20 million resumes created

3. AGENDA
01 02 03 04
EVOLUTION PRESENT TRENDS THE FUTURE
What’s happened? What’s happening? Where are we heading? Where does that lead?

4. EVOLUTION (?)

5. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RESUME

6. AgenciesReferrals
WebsiteAds
SocialDirect
01 02
04
0605
03
Company recruitment process
ATS

7. + thousands more!

8. WHAT HAS CHANGED?
• Not much?
• Increased complexity
• Increased competition/expectations

9. WHAT HASN’T CHANGED
• Company driven
• Summary of your skills and experience
• Business metrics
– Quality of hire
– Time to hire
– Cost to hire

10. THE PRESENT
Status quo, innovations, and challenges.

11. What is the most interesting
current innovation?

12. WHAT’S IN A RESUME?
RESUM
E
Online track record
Search results
Portfolio projects
Social Profiles

13. Your online footprint

14. SEARCH

15. SOCIAL

16. RED FLAGS
Inappropriate
photos
Drinking/drug
use
Discriminatory
comments
i9 presentation to Joe
Smith
16
53% 44%
24%
Lied
26%

17. WHY IT MATTERS
• Social footprint very important
• Constantly monitoring/maintaining brand
• No presence is better than a bad one
• Red flags = immediate disqualification

18. Portfolios & Personal websites

19. PORTFOLIOS AND PERSONAL WEBSITES

20. THE RESUME/PORTFOLIO COMBINATION

21. WHY THEY MATTER
• The resume is just the beginning
• Summary + proof
• Ties into Google search
• Projects > history
• Validates work experience

22. Innovative sites

28. WHY THEY MATTER
The good
• Power back to job seekers
• Less time consuming
• No resume black hole
• Recruited vs apply
The bad
• Possible for non-tech industries?
• Increased polarization
• More work to maintain

29. Outside the box

30. • More competition
• Driven by companies
• Person matched to job

35. TAKEAWAYS
• The resume is no longer enough
• Job seekers must constantly monitor online footprint
• Track and show your work!
• Experiment with different methods

36. TRENDS

37. What is today’s most
important trend?

38. Short-term employment

39. Job hopping is the new normal
51%
30%
19%
Length of time at job
Less than 2 years Over 4 years Between 2-4 years

40. The independent economy
US Freelancers
Contributing $1tr to the economy
UK Gig Economy
Growth since 2010
$$’s Spent
In US Gig economy
34% 72% 800B

41. Freelancing

43. WHY IT MATTERS
• Projects are more important than years worked
• Constant record of current projects
• Always Be Marketing
• Ability to compete globally
• Larger market for niche skills

44. Automation

45. Applicant tracking
Stacking the deck against job seekers
Applications
Automatically rejected
Market share
Among Fortune 500
75% 90%

46. ATS MATCHING
• Semantic matching
• Artificial intelligence (?)
• Talent rediscovery

47. WHY IT MATTERS
• Harder for job seekers to stand out
• No transparency into the process (resume black hole)
• Disheartening and discouraging

48. SOLUTIONS
• Utilize LinkedIn, portfolios, and other creative options
• Custom resume for each job - match resume to job description
• Apply directly – avoid the ATS until absolutely necessary

49. Mobile/messaging

50. The rise of mobile recruiting
Messaging, mobile, bots, and AI.
30B 85 51% 5B
Daily texts Daily checks Usage Funding

51. WHAT’S HAPPENING?
• Text is preferred communication method
• Focus on hourly workers and gig economy – but moving quickly
• Growth of alternatives to SMS (WhatsApp, Facebook, WeChat)
• Automated through artificial intelligence

52. CHANNELS

53. AI/AUTOMATION

54. WHY IT MATTERS
• Easier access to jobs – even more competition
• Importance of speed to reply and response time
• Better channel for passive job seekers
• No penalty for poor phone communicators
• Increased efficiency

55. THE FUTURE

56. What are your predictions?

57. 1 YEAR PREDICTIONS
• Growth of messaging – with some automation
• Personalization – emails, resumes, and portfolios
• Marketing approach – positioning, targeting

58. 5 YEAR PREDICTIONS
• Dominance of short-term work economy
• Everyone is their own personal marketer
• Better records of employment, skills, projects
• Improved matching
• Bigger divide between “above and below the API”

59. 10 YEAR PREDICTIONS
• Perfect information leads to efficient market
• Personal recruitment assistant for individuals
• Easy access to on-demand work
• Automated job search
• Focus on skills

60. 20 YEAR PREDICTION

61. PREPARING FOR THE FUTURE

62. WHAT WILL NOT CHANGE
• Record of what you have done, and why you’re a good fit
• Constant personal marketing – both active and passive
• Continued quest for more efficiency
• It is a human problem (and a hard one to solve)

63. THANK YOU

64. Q & A?