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Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by tagyro »

SCUSKU wrote: post #15
tagyro wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll second this. I would like to give this a try (been job hunting for the past 6 months), but I'm also a bit paranoid in sharing a lot of data, especially with a service that has no privacy policy.

Very fair point! Not to put the onus on you but do you happen to have any pointers on where I can get started? As it stands, I am using google analytics, and also storing the resume text (though not the document), and the embedding of the text. I hope at the very least that provides some transparency.

Obligatory disclaimer IANAL (I am not a lawyer)

Using Google Analytics might have some GDPR implications in Europe. A more GDPR-friendly alternative might be Plausible Analytics.

Also, given the amount of information contained in a CV, even without a name, address, contact info etc, it could make the process of identifying the actual person fairly easy, thus it might have some GDPR implications.

You could have a look at some Privacy Policies from recruiting agencies [0][1], though those are (in my opinion) fairly "abusive".

my 2 cents: given this is a side project, I would not store any data at all

[0]: https://www.greenhouse.com/de/privacy-policy

[1]: https://join.com/privacy-policy

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by namaria »

pacifika wrote: post #9

I don’t feel safe uploading a cv to an untrusted site. It doesn’t explain what happens with the cv on first glance after it’s uploaded. Good luck

Same here. So I just made a bullet point list of the technical things I have done in the past. I got a list of jobs I wouldn't necessarily have searched for on a job board so that's nice.

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by dingledork69 »

SCUSKU wrote: post #20
pacifika wrote: post #9

I don’t feel safe uploading a cv to an untrusted site. It doesn’t explain what happens with the cv on first glance after it’s uploaded. Good luck

I appreciate the well wishes, your suspicion completely understandable (and frankly warranted). Others in this thread have suggested a Privacy Policy, looks like that's the next thing on my todo list. But as it stands, the resume text is stored, while the document itself is not. This is so I can cache resume embeddings to try and keep my OpenAI API costs to a minimum.

Stored for how long?

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by esafak »

This does not make sense to me. First, you might not want your next job to be just like the ones on your resume. Second, you might have certain constraints, and value certain things more than others in a position; i.e., have your own ranking function. Third, this site is of no use without job listings, and unless you have your own data, you can't really do anything commercial.

But congratulations on your new job!

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by SCUSKU »

lufasz wrote: post #17

Very cool, but it actually works better if I just use the CV field as a search field and type what I'm interested in working on.

I did not anticipate that behavior, but I'm glad it's working well. I will add that to the placeholder text in the text input so that others are also given that suggestion. Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by aman2k4 »

onion2k wrote: post #7
rcfox wrote: post #6

That sounds like a good idea, but I do wonder if it's a little too... safe? Every job I've ever taken, there were bullet points in the requirements that I didn't have. And every job has been in a different industry. (Granted, this is only 5 job hops in over 15 years) I'm not really sure I'd want to be perfectly qualified for a new job. Part of the fun is learning new stuff. Of course, I do understand that any job is…

This is a really good point. I've also moved upwards into jobs I don't technically meet the requirements in most of my roles. I wonder if an AI tool could generate a new resume based on your existing resume and the job spec for a role to find the best intersection of the two in order to increase your chances of getting an interview...

This is exactly what i have been working on for few weeks but not been able to get a good final results. I want to make sure that AI is not overselling my skills or completely deviating from my current experiences/skill set when trying to tailor resume for a job post.

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by selalipop »

aman2k4 wrote: post #27
onion2k wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a really good point. I've also moved upwards into jobs I don't technically meet the requirements in most of my roles. I wonder if an AI tool could generate a new resume based on your existing resume and the job spec for a role to find the best intersection of the two in order to increase your chances of getting an interview...

This is exactly what i have been working on for few weeks but not been able to get a good final results. I want to make sure that AI is not overselling my skills or completely deviating from my current experiences/skill set when trying to tailor resume for a job post.

This is an interesting problem, I might start by having ChatGPT try to infer a complete list of tools and skills each position involved along with a confidence score (even those you didn't originally tell it about)

From there you could allow it to remix the skills while maintaining an average level of confidence greater than some number: so it'd be allowed to include things slightly out of your wheelhouse only if most of the job skills matched up perfectly.

You wouldn't need the math to check out perfectly there, the score would just be a heuristic it could use internally

Re: Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume

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Post by 6510 »

SCUSKU wrote: post #13
number6 wrote: post #5

Maybe just my CV but none truly fit

Honestly I've found that with my resume as well. Like others are saying, there truly is no perfect job. That said, perhaps you could try searching previous months and see if anything good comes up that way?

I imagine it could generate a lovely list of things one might consider learning.

My skill set is (css,) vanilla front end js and enough php to dumb db queries down the tube into the front end. There is no market for my write once works forever. I'm not interested in learning anything else but it would be wild to see an ordered list of suggestions accounting for marketability and difficulty. No way a puny human like myself can make sense of an n dimensional universe.

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