No More Résumés, Say Some Firms is an interesting piece in the Journal looking at how companies are trying to implement more rigorous filtering systems for their hiring processes and avoid having to wade through countless impersonal CVs. Fred Wilson and his New York City-based VC firm, Union Square Ventures, reportedly ask for evidence of Web 2.0 savvy (hardly a leap for a company that funded the likes of Twitter and Foursquare) while others post challenges for would-be employees to answer. One startling stat: last year, Google hired 7,000 employees after receiving some two million CVs. A Google spokesman said they read every one. Gulp.

[Story via Erik Kiaer; T-shirt resume photos via SOCIALisBETTER on Flickr.]

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