Young job hunters are sending resumes on TikTok instead

Young job hunters are sending resumes on TikTok instead

Makena Yee, 21, a college student in สล็อต168 Seattle, shouted into her camera in a recent TikTok video: “Calling all recruiters! These are the reasons why you should hire me!”

Yee went on to outline her qualifications. “I’m driven with confidence, I love keeping organised, I’m adaptive and I’m a team player,” she said, as images of companies she had worked for flashed up on a green screen behind her.

The 60-second video quickly racked up more than 182,000 views and hundreds of comments. Users tagged potential employers. “Someone hire herrrr!” one commenter implored. Yee said she had received more than 15 job leads, which she plans to pursue after a summer internship.

In modern job searches, tidy one-page resumes are increasingly going the way of the fax machine. That may be accelerated by an app known for viral lip-syncing and dance videos, which is popularizing the TikTok resume.

As more college students and recent graduates use TikTok to network and find work, the company has introduced a programme allowing people to apply directly for jobs. And employers, many facing labour shortages, are interested. Chipotle, Target, Alo Yoga, Sweetgreen and more than three dozen other companies have started hiring people via the app.

The TikTok resume is central to these efforts. Job applicants submit videos with the hashtag #TikTokResumes and through TikTokresumes.com to show off their skills, something like a personal essay of old. They include their contact information and, if they want, their LinkedIn profile. Employers review the videos, which must be set to public, and schedule interviews with the applicants they find the most compelling.

The resume are an effort to help young people “get the bag” and get paid, Kayla Dixon, a marketing manager at TikTok who developed the programme, said in a statement.