July 28, 2025
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3 minutes read
In today’s fast-paced world full of AI resumes, the traditional resume just doesn’t cut it anymore.
It’s not that resumes are inherently bad: they’re just incomplete. They reduce you to job titles and a carefully curated list of bullet points. But you’re more than a job description. You’re a journey. A set of values. A story you deserve to tell.
The Problem With Resumes
We’ve all felt it: the frustration of trying to fit years of growth into a one-page PDF, and trying to word your bullet points well to escape the horror of being weeded out from the soft skills that make you an amazing teammate? It’s not measurable and doesn’t fit into one page on top of your experiences. The challenges you’ve overcome, the creative risks you’ve taken, the culture you thrive in? There’s no section for that.
Resumes often:
Overemphasize job titles, not actual impact
Flatten out personal and professional growth
Leave out soft skills, values, and adaptability
Fail to capture personality, potential, and differentiators
And on the employer side? Hiring teams miss out on incredible talent simply because that talent didn’t “look right on paper.”
Work Onward’s Solution: A Better Way to Showcase Who You Are
That’s why we built WorkOnward: we are a platform that helps you tell your whole story, not just your history.
We believe your lived experience, your adaptability, and your unique approach to problem-solving deserve to be seen. So we reimagined what a career profile could look like. Instead of a static, outdated resume, we built a visual, interactive experience that highlights:
Your growth journey: not just where you've been, but how you’ve evolved
Your impact: the real outcomes of your work, big or small
Your career profile: A full portfolio of your past work
Your values and working style: to find roles where you actually fit
When candidates can show who they really are, hiring managers can make smarter, more human decisions. We want to empower companies to build teams around people, not paper. Making this change not only decreases the chances of quitting but also saves time on hiring. It’s better to know you won’t fit before starting a new job.
That’s not just good hiring. That’s sustainable growth.
The Future of Hiring Is Story-First
At WorkOnward, we’re not saying resumes are dead. But we are saying: they’re no longer enough.
Your story matters. Your journey matters. And it deserves to be told in full.
So if you’ve ever felt like your resume didn’t do you justice: we built this for you. No more being on a disadvantage list just because you didn’t know how to write your resume.
Tell your story. Move your career forward. WorkOnward.
Holly Diamond
