Cameron: Rigid CV formats systematically disadvantage dyslexic job applicants
Ewan Cameron · Diagnosed at 16, He Built a Company to Kill the CV · Feb 8, 2023 · at 34:39
Ewan Cameron, founder and CEO of hiring platform Willow, discusses how traditional written hiring processes fail neurodivergent candidates.
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“Dyslexia does not lend itself very well to writing you know, pages about you, and writing them well. You know, dyslexia, people tend to put in, you know, the wrong word, they'll put in spelling mistakes, they'll struggle with the organization of the CV, the actual structure. You know, typical CV has got a specific structure, And if you don't follow that structure, then your CV typically goes in the bin because it doesn't match everyone else's.”
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