I'm Elise Hugh, you're listening to TED Talks Daily. Today we're talking resumes, the ubiquitous

hiring requirement that you've probably updated at least a dozen times. Well HR specialist

Nico's Marcus says we need to get rid of resumes all together. It is 2022 talk from Ted

X Bayon. He makes his case for why resumes fail workplaces and how to approach hiring

without them.

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Back in 1482, a young man heard that the region of Milan was looking for an engineer. So he

did what job applicants do. He wrote down his skills and his objectives and how they related

to the role in what is thought to be the first resume ever created. That young man was Leonardo

Da Vinci. You see, Da Vinci, in his resume, never put anything down about his past achievements.

For context, Da Vinci was one of the most talented people to ever walk on the face of the

planet, right? He was the father of architecture and paleontology, an expert botanist, astronomer

and cartographer, the guy that painted the Mona Lisa. Yet, if you took a look at his resume,

you would never guess that he was capable of achieving any of those things. If resumes

failed to capture the genius and the potential of someone like Da Vinci, why do we think

that it will work for you and me? Why will they work for anyone? Centuries later, why

do resumes play such an important part in recruiting in our careers despite little to no evidence

that they actually work? In fact, since the 1950s, they've become a mainstay in the job

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