How Digital Profiles and Career Tech Are Reshaping the Job Market

A technology entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience, Shankar specializes in starting and operating successful businesses in the recruitment and IT sectors. One of his greatest achievements is dResume, a next-generation resume that enhances machine and bot comprehension of user profiles. This innovation has been a significant catalyst in his quest to revolutionize recruitment through the use of technology.

As technology transforms the way we work, industries across sectors are experiencing a significant shift through automation and technology integration. The recruitment field is also becoming more efficient, reshaping careers and rendering some jobs obsolete.

In a recent interaction with Mandvi Singh, Managing Editor at siliconindia, Shankar shared his insights on ‘How Digital Profiles and Career Tech Are Reshaping the Job Market’.

How are digital profiles and career technology expanding opportunities for job seekers beyond geographical boundaries, and what impact does this have on global talent accessibility?

For accessibility of talent, it is very essential that jobseekers opt for digital profiles which gives seamless portability of resume across applications in the Recruitment industry and beyond. With structured jobs, today a job posted anywhere in the world is available to us through digital sources we regularly use, such as, the job board we regularly visit. This is exactly what will happen when digital first resume replaces conventional resume which is primarily designed for A4 print. With structured & interoperable resume, resume can be viewed from any ATS by any recruiter, anywhere in the world. Today, we at dResume are championing the cause of structured resume in every-way possible. This includes an open-source vocabulary & schema for resume – available at FluidResume.com.

In what ways are AI-powered algorithms revolutionizing candidate selection and how can companies ensure these systems are free from bias?

It is almost a decade since machines were active part of recruiting, particularly sourcing of candidates. It started with Screening & filtering resume for keywords. Today, after the wave of AI companies taking the world by storm, machines are much smarter than mere keyword identifiers. The comprehend the requirement and screen profiles accordingly. Almost every ATS & Job sites have incorporated AI tools in their recruitment process. Going forward, we are in for even more tasks that AI will excel at such as prediction of requirement & pre-screening of prospects for just-in-time hiring. Bias in system can be overcome by creating local agents to filter & moderate them. Another easy way to eliminate bias is by feeding resume data that are purely job related & personal information kept out of the machines decision making preview.

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