The #1 Thing Standard Job Hunting Advice Leaves Out

If you're job hunting in 2025, you've likely encountered familiar advice: Tailor your resume with the perfect keywords for AI screening tools—but keep it human-friendly and quantify your achievements. 

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Refresh your LinkedIn profile with in-demand skills—but avoid marking yourself as openly job hunting because it looks "desperate." 

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Don't rely solely on resumes or applications; tap your network because 60% of jobs aren't even listed. 

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Always send a thank-you note after an interview—but don't expect any feedback or communication from recruiters afterward. Frustrated yet? 

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The one thing this advice usually misses is: Why is job hunting so unnecessarily complicated? 

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The traditional resume format has remained mostly unchanged for decades, even as workplaces evolved dramatically. While resumes effectively summarize experience, they come with major drawbacks: They only showcase what candidates claim they're good at—not their real-world capabilities. Applicant Tracking Systems favor strong resume writers, often overlooking those who excel at the actual work. Resumes don't reveal a candidate's personality or how they'd fit into a team day-to-day. To overcome these limitations, employers have layered complexity onto applications through extensive tests, quizzes, and assessments to try to better understand candidates.

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But what if there was a simpler, more authentic way to enhance the resume itself?

That’s where a video vibe check through KNOWME comes in.

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It’s the perfect complement to a traditional application because it shows what a resume can’t—your energy, personality, and how you show up. In just 60 seconds, candidates can go beyond the bullet points and give hiring teams a real sense of who they are. And for employers, it's a faster, more human way to spot potential, culture fit, and communication skills before the interview even starts.

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In a hiring landscape that feels increasingly impersonal and complex, KNOWME brings the human element back to the forefront.

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Introducing the era of video vibe checks

On KNOWME, candidates and hiring managers can both post short videos and turn the traditional application process on its head. 

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Here’s how that helps:

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Personality over paper: Video resumes help capture the person behind the qualifications – which is really what all the other elaborate strategies try to do poorly. They give employers an instant glimpse into the parts of who you are that don’t translate well on paper.

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Efficiency for everyone: Hiring managers can quickly gauge if you would be a good cultural fit, saving hours they’d otherwise spend reading resumes and conducting initial interviews. And when you watch their video, you can screen them the exact same way.

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Expanding your network: Video resumes help you break out of your existing network to show your personality to employers that don’t already know you. Rather than just ticking boxes, you can build connections even if you don’t already have a leg up in your industry.

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Video resumes are a step towards a more inclusive, efficient, and personal hiring process. They address the fundamental flaw in the traditional job-hunting advice: the lack of human connection.

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Back to our original question: why does job hunting have to be this complicated? Our answer: it doesn’t have to be.