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>After years of building up my portfolio, it became apparent that most outside recruiters I talked with never looked at my blog/GitHub, despite a strong emphasi
by ComodoHacker 9y ago
>After years of building up my portfolio, it became apparent that most outside recruiters I talked with never looked at my blog/GitHub, despite a strong emphasis of both on my résumé.
Interesting. Could someone with HR experience elaborate, what recruiters are actually looking at?
- theparanoid 9y agotop half of your resume's first page. I'm not joking.
- UweSchmidt 9y agonot a recruiter, but: - HR people usually won't have the technical skills needed to evaluate blog articles, let alone code on GitHub - a certain % of the recruiters is interested in a more superficial hiring process. It's about getting candidates with resumes to interviews, not about evaluating just how much machine learning expertise someone really has and how this matches with the exact problem set the client company may have. (If you now think that this means there is an opportunity for real technical recruiting, then please, go for it! Identify which programming(-related) tasks are suitable for beginners. Find exiting and rewarding work for top candidates ...)
- marsrover 9y agoI'm not a recruiter but I always ask the person interviewing me if they've looked at my personal projects and/or GitHub. The answer is usually (9 out of 10 times) no. I put a good amount of time into my personal projects and while I didn't make them only to get an interview it seems like such a huge oversight on behalf of the potential employer to not even look at what I might be able to build. It's also disappointing that they don't look.