people are coming from the angle of “why do I have to fill out a webform and not just upload a standard file for ingestion” but in terms of how much of computing is experienced today, that’s starting to seem like an antiquated notion… how many people are using phones or tablets to apply for jobs? they’re not doing much file managing directly… linkedin is already supplanting resumes

This is super obvious and software developers who use open source tend to always think that open source software is the solution.

Sometimes it’s an economics problem. Problems need incentives before they can be solved.

Yep. And it comes with network search too which your PDF resume does not have.

I always put my LinkedIn profile in my Cv. Recruiters often use LinkedIn to manage their candidates anyway.