Resume Genome Project
I was digging around Path101’s website this evening to see what Charlie and the team were up to and dug deep into the Resume Genome Project.
What is this?
We’ve been crawling the web gathering up resumes and industry information. What you see here is our first take at analyzing and visualizing it.
We hope you’ll explore industries, learning what they are about, how to get into them, what a typical career is like, and what people go on to leaving them.
A lot more information about the Resume Genome Project. The RGP is a big reason on why I chose to invest in Path101, it’s much needed in the industry and don’t know many other smart people conquering this area. Aggregating data or content is one thing, but drawing parallels between them is another.
What do people actually wind up doing with my background? Where do people like me work, and where can they work in the future?
Well, all that information is actually out there–its in our collective resumes. The big job boards have it in their vast resume databases, but they were never parsed and structured in a way to be exposed, analyzed, and navigated in aggregate to yield insights. They are just being sold to recruiters in a firehose.
As it turns out with most walled garden approaches, today’s web presents a viable, openly accessible alternative. Millions of resumes are actually available in public out on the web in various different types of homepages and profiles. It’s no surprise either. More and more people are constructing web presences for themselves in an effort to get found, so its natural that they would include a resume.
We’re downloading, parsing, and doing a lot of structure and cleanup work to make this data not only presentable and navigable, but interactive.