The New Resume Is a Database, Not a Document

Your one-page resume is a broken compression format. The future of your career is contextual, structured, and alive. A resume is not your career. It is a compressed screenshot of your career, usually taken at the worst possible resolution. One page. A few bullet points. Some dates. A handful of skills. A couple job titles that may or may not explain what you actually did. Then that document gets thrown into an applicant tracking system and judged against a job description that may also be incomp