Link: http://www.recruiterdaily.com.au/nl06_news_selected.php?act=2&nav=1&selkey=37112

Job boards have turned recruiters into "no men" who spend most of their time rejecting candidates instead of recruiting them, according to Rob McGovern, the founder and CEO of US-based CareerBuilder and Jobfox.

He predicts that more sophisticated tools and technology coming onto the market will solve this problem, and that the end of the resume is "coming a lot faster than we think"... read on

I would suggest that Rob McGovern may very well be right about the end of the resume, but its not particularly new (although it may be to some recruiters!). Any Free Agent / Consultant worth their salt offers to a talent NETwork, such as aCE talentNET, a link to either a web site or a profile page somewhere by way of introduction. They will still supply a CV now only because it is asked of them, not because it is their preference.

10 years ago, the forerunner to aCE talentNET, namely aCE Resources, went down the technology path and developed a fabulous initiative called Resumes OnLine. Sadly it did not stick around long enough to live up to its full potential. Even then though, aCE knew that the future of candidate profiling was via the web, and that the real value was about having candidates online.

Sounds like we're heading back to the future...