The Resume is Noise | Matt Baxter | TEDxMacatawa

The resume has been used as a hiring tool for more than 500 years, and hiring practices have changed little since. In this TEDxMacatawa talk, HR tech founder Matt Baxter argues that the current system buries useful information under noise for both job seekers and employers, and urges both sides to look beyond the bullet points. He describes his background as an entrepreneur who started his first company at 15 and co-founded Wedge, an asynchronous video interviewing platform intended to replace the phone screen. The talk was given at an independently organized TEDx event that follows the TED conference format. It is presented by TEDx Talks.

• Argues that resumes add noise to the hiring process
• Examines the friction of frontline hiring
• Describes Wedge, an asynchronous video interviewing platform
• Speaker: Matt Baxter, entrepreneur and HR tech founder

The first recorded resume was written more than 500 years ago, and the way we hire hasn’t changed much since. HR tech veteran Matt Baxter argues that today’s hiring system buries the signal in noise for job seekers and employers alike, and he challenges both to look past the bullet points for what really matters. Matt Baxter is an entrepreneur and HR tech founder who believes the resume is noise. He started his first company, Stony Pointe Lawn Care, at 15, ran it for six years, and sold it in 2015 while studying management at Hope College. Frustrated by the friction of frontline hiring, he wanted a faster, more human way to see who a candidate actually is. So he co-founded Wedge, an asynchronous video interviewing platform built to replace the phone screen. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx