I expect people will vary on this. Maybe most people who would be happy filling in the form at all won’t mind much about google drive link-sharing. (I imagine a little more nervousness b/c it’s easier for people to share a link to their CV than share e.g. a pdf of their CV)
Of possible interest: 2 minutes reflection from me says that I probably won’t get to filling this in b/c “writing a CV” is something I will naturally feel perfectionist about // probably I’d need to spend 1-3 days on it to feel comfortable with it going to this group, and I probably don’t want to spend that time (if someone made a bid that something was really important I could imagine myself pushing through the discomfort and doing something faster, but I’m more interested in myself as a stand-in for other people with the same hangups than literally getting a submission from me). If instead of asking for a CV you just had a series of questions about career that I could fill in on the form, I’d be decently likely to spend 20-30 minutes doing that. The key difference is that if I’m doing it for a form there’s no social expectation that it’s the kind of thing that people put time into polishing, so I don’t feel bad about doing a quick rather than perfectionist version.
I think updating one’s LinkedIn with the minimum new information would be substantially easier than this, and potentially more likely than abandoning / procrastinating on the survey?
(I’m a conscientious objector to LinkedIn. I think the business practices of requiring you to have an account to see other people’s accounts, and of showing people who pay who’s looked at their page, are super obnoxious.)
I expect people will vary on this. Maybe most people who would be happy filling in the form at all won’t mind much about google drive link-sharing. (I imagine a little more nervousness b/c it’s easier for people to share a link to their CV than share e.g. a pdf of their CV)
Of possible interest: 2 minutes reflection from me says that I probably won’t get to filling this in b/c “writing a CV” is something I will naturally feel perfectionist about // probably I’d need to spend 1-3 days on it to feel comfortable with it going to this group, and I probably don’t want to spend that time (if someone made a bid that something was really important I could imagine myself pushing through the discomfort and doing something faster, but I’m more interested in myself as a stand-in for other people with the same hangups than literally getting a submission from me). If instead of asking for a CV you just had a series of questions about career that I could fill in on the form, I’d be decently likely to spend 20-30 minutes doing that. The key difference is that if I’m doing it for a form there’s no social expectation that it’s the kind of thing that people put time into polishing, so I don’t feel bad about doing a quick rather than perfectionist version.
I’ll think about this some more and may make a lightweight version of this tomorrow.
(Part of the reason for posting this census here before promoting more widely on mailing lists was to get this kind of feedback. So I appreciate it! )
I think updating one’s LinkedIn with the minimum new information would be substantially easier than this, and potentially more likely than abandoning / procrastinating on the survey?
(I’m a conscientious objector to LinkedIn. I think the business practices of requiring you to have an account to see other people’s accounts, and of showing people who pay who’s looked at their page, are super obnoxious.)
Agree they have a bunch of very obnoxious business practices. Just fyi you can change a seeing so nobody can see whose pages you look at.