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#12The best resume is one started with vi or Notepad and written in your own words, not using a template, not reviewed and edited by someone, certainly not one which involves AI in any capacity.
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#13How one can build this? does that mean we need to train the model with resume data OR asking on questions along imported data each time?
1) Provide the information exactly as the person has written it 2) Make it easy for you to incrementally add little bits about your career as you think of them or as they come in
Questions you get asked can be seen by you and you can quick add a Snippet to your interactive profile which it'll then use to answer future related questions. I.e. Over time, it gets more and more complete.
Eventually, I want to build an export tool that takes a job description, looks through your history, and generates the right resume for that job.
This is a no-code solution, all in the browser. You don't need to mess with training data, training times, or anything. It's just: Import resume/blog posts/autobiography/whatever, generate Snippets, add more detail and Snippets as you see fit, get asked questions, rinse and repeat.
Edit: Posted an image of the building interface as it is today.
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#14You don't need to mess with training data or training times. The AI is built up from things called Snippets (think of them as mini interview tweets about your career) that you can add one at a time.
Import tools to generate Snippets include Resume/Auto-biography/Blog-post. These will generate Q/A pair Snippets which you can edit/append to then officially add to your interactive profile. From that point on, they're made searchable from the UI you see in the link I posted.
Edit: Lol who asked this "how is gpu programming different than traditional programming?". I put related data for that though so you good :)
Edit 2: Here's another one someone put in "im fat". That was the question, not the response.
Edit 3: And another "do you have experience in react?". Yes, the website is built with React, a custom D3 integration thing for a graph visualization of your AI, and expressjs right now.
Edit 4: Y'all redteaming this eh. Q: "describe a time where you had to commit a felony", A: "I'm still learning and don't have an answer for that yet.". Success :)
Edit 5: Here's an actual good one. Q: "isn't getting to know people personally better than protoconstruct?". Yes, it is. ProtoConstruct isn't intended to replace personal interactions, it's intended to pre-warm them. If you remember me and this post, it'll have done it's job even though we've never spoken. In fact, it's gotten us to speak in the first place even if virtually. My goal is to improve all of our 'professional networking funnels' by making every cold interaction a little bit warmer than an old and crusty LinkedIn profile.
Edit 6: Oh my y'all are breaking my question review page. I didn't make it paginated yet. No hallucinations yet though. All good on that front.
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#17Very cool.
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#18This is a very interesting idea. Given access to long form descriptions of what has been worked on, ideally with some kind of trusted verification, this approach seems like it would operate at scale quite well and could transform the way we network and hire. A technical expert could explain what is needed for a role, and with AI assistance candidates could be sorted through extremely effectively and matched to compan…
So I decided to build something that is useful to a single person first, the person that wants to market themselves. This is the first iteration that seems to be working for me in that regard; as a depth first tool.
This is intended as a 'show and tell and get feedback post', but if any of you want to actually try making one, you can reach out to me at anyeung@protoconstruct.com.
I'm intent on making networking just less painful for everyone, in particular, for the individual. If this gets big enough, then I'll think about breadth first tools.
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#19How one can build this? does that mean we need to train the model with resume data OR asking on questions along imported data each time?
Right now I have it set up so you can import your resume and it generates what I call 'Snippets'. They're kind of like mini Q/A pairs about your career (which you can see as sources below when you ask a question). This does two things: 1) Provide the information exactly as the person has written it 2) Make it easy for you to incrementally add little bits about your career as you think of them or as they come in Quest…
1. we build this as browser extension for LinkedIn profile page
2. Or ask people to input their LinkedIn profile page, Twitter handle, GitHub etc & interactively answer questions.
I see this as a tool for recruiters & hiring managers. Great!
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#20This is kind of cool, but there are NO affordances. It's like you walk into a restaurant and you have to ask the waiter exactly what food they have, and they'll answer your question, but you never know if you they gave you the breadth of what the restaurant serves. Frustrating! Better if you had a snapshot of what's on offer, and then you could ask a special thing (does this dish contain nuts; I'm allergic) etc. — si…
Great callout. I don't actually see this replacing LinkedIn profiles or resumes, more like an add-on so you can figure out more about a person. Example: "Proficient in C++", that's about as much as you get from a resume. But what projects did I use C++ in? What tooling did I use? Did it ship in a product? Better yet, the interactive profile should say 'yes, they worked on C++ on these projects, here's a link to the s…
The biggest issues I see are:
- getting candidates to put their data in, you can't really rely on scraping because a résumé doesn't provide enough information, and your hallucination quantity will go up
- getting critical mass of users, so that recruiters and potential employers would find the database valuable
- candidates embellishing their accomplishments, though admittedly this is also a problem with basic resumes