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I'm going through this process myself and I think one thing that'd be great is if you can A/B test your resume. What do you think about the general idea for a w

I'm going through this process myself and I think one thing that'd be great is if you can A/B test your resume. What do you think about the general idea for a website that lets you do a hot or not style A/B test for resumes? Basically, limit it to programmers, Upvote / Downvote the resume and a comment section.

Peroni 15y ago
I'm sure it would work and the people here on HN would be all over it. The only tricky part would be to come up with a system that obfuscates the personal details as well as the company details or you may run into privacy issues.
HSO 15y ago
Sounds like a good idea. One crucial difference to the original, though, is that you're _supposed_ to react instantaneously to a picture. Resumes, even 1-pagers, demand more care or some involvement of higher cognitive functions. So, this could get very tired soon. I myself would be _much_ more interested in what other people think than in looking at other people's resumes; at best, I might be able to look at 5 max. People watching is (kind of) fun, people pay premiums to have their coffees in cafes, after all. But it's not exactly my idea of fun to look at a bunch of random CVs.
- rquantz 15y ago
  Make people work for it then: in order to get feedback you need to review 5 other people's resumes.
mike-cardwell 15y ago
I don't think A/B testing is suitable for this. You could never collect enough data to make any statistically significant observations.
patio11 15y ago
If I needed a resume, I would A/B test it, but this would be theatre. You'd need huge amounts of views and a decently high conversion rate to pull it off. Neither of these suggests a happy hiring process. The main reason to A/B test the resume is to be the kind of guy who A/B tests his resume, which I guarantee you will push the right kinds of buttons at some companies.

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I'm going through this process myself and I think one thing that'd be great is if you can A/B test your resume. What do you think about the general idea for a w

by tejaswiy 15y ago

Peroni 15y ago
I'm sure it would work and the people here on HN would be all over it. The only tricky part would be to come up with a system that obfuscates the personal details as well as the company details or you may run into privacy issues.
HSO 15y ago
Sounds like a good idea. One crucial difference to the original, though, is that you're _supposed_ to react instantaneously to a picture. Resumes, even 1-pagers, demand more care or some involvement of higher cognitive functions. So, this could get very tired soon. I myself would be _much_ more interested in what other people think than in looking at other people's resumes; at best, I might be able to look at 5 max. People watching is (kind of) fun, people pay premiums to have their coffees in cafes, after all. But it's not exactly my idea of fun to look at a bunch of random CVs.
- rquantz 15y ago
  Make people work for it then: in order to get feedback you need to review 5 other people's resumes.
mike-cardwell 15y ago
I don't think A/B testing is suitable for this. You could never collect enough data to make any statistically significant observations.
patio11 15y ago
If I needed a resume, I would A/B test it, but this would be theatre. You'd need huge amounts of views and a decently high conversion rate to pull it off. Neither of these suggests a happy hiring process. The main reason to A/B test the resume is to be the kind of guy who A/B tests his resume, which I guarantee you will push the right kinds of buttons at some companies.