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#21 Work, stories, and beyond: redefining my blog’s direction

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I started this blog on impulse. I’ve been experimenting with it for a few months now, but I still don’t have a clear idea of where I’m heading.

If I had a clear path for where to take this blog, I would narrow down the topic to something that really thrills me. But since that’s not the case, I decided to broaden it. I definitely want to keep writing about work, as I genuinely believe that in the society we live in, work defines our existence and who we are—whether we like it or not. Work propels everything around us; if we or our machines weren’t constantly working like little bees, our world would collapse. Yes, we should strive to improve work conditions and make them more sustainable, but we can’t stop working.

If you read any book, any short story, or watch any movie, work is always a pillar of the narrative. It defines characters, sets the scene, and shapes time and space—whether it’s in the background or at the forefront of the storytelling.

However, I don’t want to limit myself to writing only about what happens in my work life. I want to explore short stories, random reflections, and maybe even share one-paragraph posts inspired by things people tell me. And while I enjoy the topic of work, I won’t write solely about it.

I’m trying to step away from my usual control-freak tendencies, where I plan and define everything. Instead, I want to lose control and discover something unexpected and new.

With that in mind, I’ve decided to change the name of the blog from Work Thoughts to Beyond My CV. It aligns with my website name, fits the broader purpose, and creates a mini personal brand. Plus, someone else already has a blog called Work Thoughts, which annoyed me quite a bit.

#3 Something’s been missing on LinkedIn

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Language mismatch when searching for jobs on LinkedIn

Have you ever come across amazing open positions on LinkedIn that made you scan the description with growing enthusiasm, only to find out, towards the end, that the language requirements were a total mismatch with your skills? If not, lucky you—because for me, it happens most of the time.
Now, some recruiting teams are smart enough to display the language requirements in the title. It’s pretty simple if you think about it—just add (EN, ES, IT, DE…) in parentheses. Done. Pretty intuitive, right?

For some reason, recruiters seem to overlook that language skills are probably the most important requirement they should communicate alongside the role. But I get it—maybe they want to keep the title clean, free from potentially confusing abbreviations, or they want to respect the information hierarchy of the overall description. Well, in that case, they could make sure the requirements block is the first thing covered in the job description, and that the first bullet point is related to language skills—it’ll be the first thing everybody sees. Not only would this make it easier for applicants to sift through the thousands of jobs out there, but recruiters would save a lot of time scanning through mismatched applications (which they’d probably stop receiving) from people who didn’t get to the bottom of their long job description.
But even if a few proactive recruiters work around this LinkedIn limitation, until this practice becomes widespread (which may never happen), it’s still a problem.

Hoping for a LinkedIn language filter

About a year ago, I sent feedback to LinkedIn pointing out this issue. I even created a quick mockup on Figma to show them what I had in mind—totally unnecessary, I know, but I had fun pretending to be a product designer at LinkedIn. They sent me a nice response, and that was the end of the story.
I don’t have the audacity to expect my email to be taken seriously when they likely have a huge number of things to fix, and since they manage a complex database with literally billions of users, I guess any new feature release can take months or even years.
Nevertheless, I want to leave this reflection here as a testimony to the hard times job seekers and recruiters endure due to language skill misunderstandings! And irony aside, let’s shout out loud that a kickass language filter in the LinkedIn app would be a mega game changer and speed up hiring processes all over the world.