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That's actually better, since in this case there's reason to the madness, which cannot be said for the typical second order ignorant HR person.

by _pmf_ 8y ago

moate 8y ago
I mean, someone still had to decide what inputs to use for the algo. Ultimately somewhere a dumb human thought may have been involved.
huehehue 8y ago
Maybe. How intelligent are the resume scanners? Just a few years ago, I shotgunned my resume to a bunch of big companies and experienced something like: Resume: "Ported XYZ from Angular to React, built a Rails app" Response: "Sorry, we need someone with JavaScript and Ruby experience" I think it's best to have two resumes, one that's more or less a big list of keywords, and another that you can show actual humans.
- WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
  I have a resume that contains a block on the left 33% of the page with the following: \subsection{Technology Fluencies} Java \textbullet{} Python \textbullet{} PHP \textbullet{} Ruby on Rails \\ Javascript \textbullet{} NodeJS \textbullet{} ReactJS / Native \\ SQL \textbullet{} SQLite \textbullet{} MySQL \textbullet{} DB2 \textbullet{} Redis \\ Postgres \textbullet{} Bitcoin / Blockchain \textbullet{} REST \\ ActionCable / WebSocket \textbullet{} JSON \textbullet{} XML \\ ElasticSearch \textbullet{} JWT \textbullet{} JUnit \textbullet{} Jest \\ TestNG \textbullet{} Selenium \textbullet{} Robot \textbullet{} Maven \textbullet{} Ant \\ ESXi \textbullet{} Docker \textbullet{} Flynn \textbullet{} Dokku \textbullet{} Heroku \\ Analytics 360 \textbullet{} Google Tag Manager \\ Salesforce DMP \textbullet{} Github \textbullet{} Git \textbullet{} SVN \\ JIRA \textbullet{} Vagrant \textbullet{} Ansible \textbullet{} Perforce \\ \subsection{Additional Fluencies} Amazon Web Services \textbullet{} Agile Dev. \\ TDD \textbullet{ }SDLC \textbullet{} SaaS \textbullet{} IaaS \textbullet{} PaaS \\
- _pmf_ 8y ago
  > I think it's best to have two resumes, one that's more or less a big list of keywords, and another that you can show actual humans. You can probably integrate both by having a keyword-only layer in white on white below the real text.

That's actually better, since in this case there's reason to the madness, which cannot be said for the typical second order ignorant HR person.

by _pmf_ 8y ago

That's actually better, since in this case there's reason to the madness, which cannot be said for the typical second order ignorant HR person.

moate 8y ago

I mean, someone still had to decide what inputs to use for the algo. Ultimately somewhere a dumb human thought may have been involved.

huehehue 8y ago

Maybe. How intelligent are the resume scanners? Just a few years ago, I shotgunned my resume to a bunch of big companies and experienced something like: Resume: "Ported XYZ from Angular to React, built a Rails app" Response: "Sorry, we need someone with JavaScript and Ruby experience" I think it's best to have two resumes, one that's more or less a big list of keywords, and another that you can show actual humans.

WrtCdEvrydy 8y ago
I have a resume that contains a block on the left 33% of the page with the following: \subsection{Technology Fluencies} Java \textbullet{} Python \textbullet{} PHP \textbullet{} Ruby on Rails \\ Javascript \textbullet{} NodeJS \textbullet{} ReactJS / Native \\ SQL \textbullet{} SQLite \textbullet{} MySQL \textbullet{} DB2 \textbullet{} Redis \\ Postgres \textbullet{} Bitcoin / Blockchain \textbullet{} REST \\ ActionCable / WebSocket \textbullet{} JSON \textbullet{} XML \\ ElasticSearch \textbullet{} JWT \textbullet{} JUnit \textbullet{} Jest \\ TestNG \textbullet{} Selenium \textbullet{} Robot \textbullet{} Maven \textbullet{} Ant \\ ESXi \textbullet{} Docker \textbullet{} Flynn \textbullet{} Dokku \textbullet{} Heroku \\ Analytics 360 \textbullet{} Google Tag Manager \\ Salesforce DMP \textbullet{} Github \textbullet{} Git \textbullet{} SVN \\ JIRA \textbullet{} Vagrant \textbullet{} Ansible \textbullet{} Perforce \\ \subsection{Additional Fluencies} Amazon Web Services \textbullet{} Agile Dev. \\ TDD \textbullet{ }SDLC \textbullet{} SaaS \textbullet{} IaaS \textbullet{} PaaS \\
_pmf_ 8y ago
> I think it's best to have two resumes, one that's more or less a big list of keywords, and another that you can show actual humans. You can probably integrate both by having a keyword-only layer in white on white below the real text.