On the point about our buildings shaping us: I was recently made redundant. As part of my package I get "help" with CV writing. I have a self-written CV that tries to express something of who I am and what I want to do, which is inevitably different from who other people are and what they may want to do. At my age I have some idea of how to express myself...I got back a boilerplate document optimised for keyword search, with helpful comments explaining which terms to use to get through Applicant Tracking Systems. The sad part, of course, is that they're right - the CV that was written by a machine will do much better at getting through a selection machine. You have to go to special lengths to find a human connection between two souls (definitely not a word you should use in a CV!)
On the point about our buildings shaping us: I was recently made redundant. As part of my package I get "help" with CV writing. I have a self-written CV that tries to express something of who I am and what I want to do, which is inevitably different from who other people are and what they may want to do. At my age I have some idea of how to express myself...I got back a boilerplate document optimised for keyword search, with helpful comments explaining which terms to use to get through Applicant Tracking Systems. The sad part, of course, is that they're right - the CV that was written by a machine will do much better at getting through a selection machine. You have to go to special lengths to find a human connection between two souls (definitely not a word you should use in a CV!)