A short interview excerpt (YouTube) featuring Neal Bloom discussing shortcomings of traditional resume-based hiring and advocating for personal branding and better student–employer matching through portfolio visibility. The speaker emphasizes that resumes and GPA-focused selection are outdated and that platforms should help graduates find passionate, well-fitting jobs.
It's a place where you stand out and show off your own personal brand, where students and the companies really need to get to know each other to make sure that they're right fit for every major you can think of is on the portfolio already. Grads coming out of college, they have a lot to offer, and they're not looked at necessarily for their total personnel. They are purely looked at by a resume, their major, their gpa, what school they went to, and then just kind of plugged in someplace. And that's not the best way. Too old of a process to just submit your resume into a stack of pieces of paper. And we are incredibly passionate about changing that up and helping students not just get a job, but find something that they're passionate about.
