The resume was a method to transfer the knowledge of a person's skillsets to the company. With today's technology to easily store all skillsets into a central location, I believe companies should have a method to determine which skillsets to review instead of depending on candidates to "highlight" the skills that they think is what the company is looking for.
It is great skill to be able to market oneself in 1-2 pages, but like marketing there are hidden variables that may make a difference. Why would a company hire someone because they know how to market themselves? And then compensate the candidate accordingly? What can end up is someone being compensated not according to skillsets or personal situations, thus causing more dissatisfaction within the group.
That is the industry standard. I believe there is room for companies that can make use of modern technology to filter actual skillsets that give better gauge on an employees potential fit to the company. Happy employer, happy employee would make a more cost effective benefit to both parties.
There should be patterns to a person like they have for personalities (16personalities.com). Basically a corporate HR should be able to see current skillsets and potential future growths. Reality is that people are not looking to change to do the same thing, so to poach star employees for lower cost is to move them to a new position.
In conclusion, the whole process to have candidates sell themselves then have corporations pick the best sales pitch seems quite backwards. Corporations have the dataset on what types of skillsets make a good candidate. Candidates are more valuable when they can focus on what they do well and not waste some talents on self-marketing or understanding their value in the market. Bridging this gap would be a win-win for bother employer and employee.
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