--- title: Why We Should Get Rid of the Resume description: Paying congressional staff better, dumping the resume and more. canonical: https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-22T16:01:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:14.306Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Why We Should Get Rid of the Résumé og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Why We Should Get Rid of the Résumé twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Why We Should Get Rid of the Résumé by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2016 4:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Mar 22, 2016 4:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Should we get rid of the résumé?**](https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/blog/throwing-out-the-resume-how-a-switch-to-competency-based-hiring-could-help-solve-the-youth-employment-crisis/) By Abigail Carlton and Jamai Blivin at the Rockefeller Foundation **2\.** [**Maybe congressional dysfunction can be solved with more and better-paid staff.**](http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/congress-needs-better-paid-staff) By Lee Drutman in Roll Call **3\.** [**Facts are important, but we should teach kids why history matters.**](http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2016/03/14/schools-arent-teaching-kids-to-argue-truth-to-power/ideas/nexus/) By Rachel Burstein in Zócalo Public Square **4\.** [**Safe public transportation for women can help developing cities thrive.**](http://www.urban.org/urban-wire/why-womens-access-safe-public-transportation-key-sustainable-development-0) By Yasemin Irvin-Erickson at the Urban Institute **5\.** [**How can we save children’s lives around the world if we don’t know what’s killing them?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/new-autopsy-program-can-help-save-children-by-scott-dowell-2016-03) By Scott Dowell at Project Syndicate  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/"},"headline":"Why We Should Get Rid of the Résumé","datePublished":"2016-03-22T16:01:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:14.306Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/","keywords":["Innovation","Children","Jobs","History"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4267549/get-rid-resume/","name":"Why We Should Get Rid of the Résumé"}}]}] ```