
HR Still Needs to Solve Its Resume Problem
A few weeks ago I was chatting with a friend at another company about an intern set to join my team. To my surprise, he was also excited because his team was hiring a summer intern. We expressed our shared excitement over the ability to teach a young professional. “I have so much to teach him already,” he said to me. “I saw his resume — he didn’t even have a hobbies section.” I’ll be honest, before this conversation it hadn’t occurred to me that a hobbies section was a requirement for a good resume. But I’m certain that good people