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#42Looks 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…
Thanks for you kind word and for asking this great question. I have to admit that the claim is more for marketing purpose to make it look impressive. The truth is that we tested the design with a small group of folks, including myself, students, a career coach and friends. We use this design during our job searches and we have landed interviews/offers from the companies listed in the logo clouds. It works for a small sample size of us, so we include the logos up there to enhance its credibility that it at least has proven to work for some companies out there.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
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”?
Yes, by definition. Whether or not it's legal depends on where you live, and whether or not it's ethical depends on who you ask.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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”?
Depends on how good their lawyer happens to be, swording arguments with the employment law for people with disabilities.
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/publications/fact-sheets/e...
Re: Show HN: Open-source resume builder and parser
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your primary filter is whether or not someone can produce a resume or not, do better.
It suited me quite fine for many years. If an intellectual worker can't take a text editor and produce a coherent text about his skills and job experience, it is unlikely he'll be good at any job that requires thinking.
> If an intellectual worker can't take a text editor and produce a coherent text about his skills and job experience, it is unlikely he'll be good at any job that requires thinking.
I'd argue that if a resume builder threatens your ability to filter out good and bad resumes, you're probably not a good hiring manager and also are unlikely to be fit for a job that requires thinking.
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#46Looks 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…
Thanks for you kind word and for asking this great question. I have to admit that the claim is more for marketing purpose to make it look impressive. The truth is that we tested the design with a small group of folks, including myself, students, a career coach and friends. We use this design during our job searches and we have landed interviews/offers from the companies listed in the logo clouds. It works for a small…
>I have to admit that the claim is more for marketing purpose to make it look impressive.
If you are going to be honest about lying by admitting to us that you lied, just state that it was a lie, don't euphemize it as marketing. Otherwise the "honesty" just comes of as manipulation.
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#47Many 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…
Pretty firmly with you on this one and not with the detractors.
Ultimately, engineers are solving business problems, working with other departments and untangling technical ideas.
Often they need to explain those ideas to non-technical folks, and just as often, they need to justify their decisions to technical and non-technical colleagues.
In every area and task having solid writing skills including documentation, emails, and putting together reports, is extremely important.
Frankly if engineers lack the care and attention to detail to put together a decent resume that's a pretty strong signal their other writing is probably sloppy as well.
To the detractors: writing code is the easiest part of the job, figuring out what code to write to solve the right business problem in concert with other areas is what is important. I do not care if you are a wiz kid mega coder, if your writing is sloppy it casts doubt on everything you _are_ trying to say.
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#48Many 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.
You'll also filter a bunch of people who respect their time enough to say "fuck that lmao"
You can probably get away with it you're the only place hiring
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#49IMO if you're targeting software developers you might want to consider including the github or similar link to their portfolio in the top section. It is one of the more important items to include, more so than linked-in for devs.
Thank you for this great feedback. I agree with this 100% and I personally use github link in my resume instead of linkedin link. Currently, it shows a GitHub logo if you pass in a github link, e.g. github.com/eikenberry. I just create an issue to keep track of this on how to make it more noticeable: https://github.com/xitanggg/open-resume/issues/6
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Thanks, much appreciate it.