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Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by xitang »

jedberg wrote: post #15

Interesting. I put my LinkedIn generated resume into the parser, and it only parsed it about 1/2 right. Which makes me wonder, who is doing the wrong thing here? Is LinkedIn generating a bad resume, or is the ATS parser not able to parse what I assume should be pretty standard, as I imagine a lot of people use that feature of LinkedIn.

This is very helpful to know. Thanks for sharing this. I haven't tested the resume parser with the resume pdf generated from LinkedIn. I just create an issue and will test it next: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/5. I will share more once I look more into it.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by RobotToaster »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Many years ago we were posting jobs on a local bulletin boards and received applicant resumes on an email. The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. Then, an internet company in our country took over the market and almost all jobs are searched through it. Of course,it features a very nice resume builder, so now everyone ha…

Require applications to be sent by post. You'll filter out a lot of people who can't even send a letter properly that way.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

#34

Post by AHOHA »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Many years ago we were posting jobs on a local bulletin boards and received applicant resumes on an email. The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. Then, an internet company in our country took over the market and almost all jobs are searched through it. Of course,it features a very nice resume builder, so now everyone ha…

You are discriminating against the candidates who might have some disabilities (whether they know they have or not) like dyslexia, you are also discriminating against candidates whose English (or whatever that language in your country) isn’t their first, even though they might be the best suited candidates, best programmers/engineers/etc., I have seen this first hand in some interviews, where some candidates eliminated from the first round by hiring managers because of similar issues or even silly ones like having an accent, after I -as the technical interviewer- gave the green light thay they are qualified for the second one.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

#36

Post by tornato7 »

goncalomb wrote: post #26

Looks good, definitely an impressive "weekend project". I'll probably use it in the future. I don't mean to sound rude. But, can you explain what you mean by "trusted by students and employees from top universities and companies worldwide" while showing some university/company logos? How can such a new project make those claims? Was it released elsewhere privately? Looking at the git history, I see it was created 2 d…

He could have just sent it to a few friends at those universities/companies. Nobody should take those sorts of 'trusted by' sections seriously anyway.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

#37

Post by jedberg »

xitang wrote: post #31
jedberg wrote: post #15

Interesting. I put my LinkedIn generated resume into the parser, and it only parsed it about 1/2 right. Which makes me wonder, who is doing the wrong thing here? Is LinkedIn generating a bad resume, or is the ATS parser not able to parse what I assume should be pretty standard, as I imagine a lot of people use that feature of LinkedIn.

This is very helpful to know. Thanks for sharing this. I haven't tested the resume parser with the resume pdf generated from LinkedIn. I just create an issue and will test it next: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/5 . I will share more once I look more into it.

Awesome! I attached my PDF to the ticket for you to use for testing.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by jnsie »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Many years ago we were posting jobs on a local bulletin boards and received applicant resumes on an email. The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. Then, an internet company in our country took over the market and almost all jobs are searched through it. Of course,it features a very nice resume builder, so now everyone ha…

> The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves.

That's fine...but you have no way of knowing if the people you filtered out would have been low or high performing employees.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

#39

Post by wnolens »

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Many years ago we were posting jobs on a local bulletin boards and received applicant resumes on an email. The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. Then, an internet company in our country took over the market and almost all jobs are searched through it. Of course,it features a very nice resume builder, so now everyone ha…

Are you hiring for a writing gig?

If not, the bias could hurt. It's like a leet code interview - artificial bar from highly biased interviewers which kinda sorta works but is buggy and a bit discriminatory.

Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser

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Post by joelegner »

AHOHA wrote: post #34
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Many years ago we were posting jobs on a local bulletin boards and received applicant resumes on an email. The composition of a resume acted as a primary filter from people who couldn't even organize a few lines of information about themselves. Then, an internet company in our country took over the market and almost all jobs are searched through it. Of course,it features a very nice resume builder, so now everyone ha…

You are discriminating against the candidates who might have some disabilities (whether they know they have or not) like dyslexia, you are also discriminating against candidates whose English (or whatever that language in your country) isn’t their first, even though they might be the best suited candidates, best programmers/engineers/etc., I have seen this first hand in some interviews, where some candidates eliminat…

In my field communicating with other English-speaking people is probably 80% of the job. Someone who cannot read and write clear English prose will not be successful. Serious question: if I eliminate someone from contention because they struggle to read, write, and speak English, is that “discrimination”?
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