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Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by detaro »

kioleanu wrote: post #280
GoToRO wrote: post #263

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"This information is very important." Years != Experience ...but thanks for confirming the shallowness of the recruiting processes we've all experienced.

that has nothing to do with shallowness, if someone has spent a few months at X previous jobs before you, this is definitely something to be addressed in the interview. Had an acquaintance recently that hired a guy that didn't pass the probation period at 2 out of 3 jobs he had. My acquaintance didn't address this at all and hired him anyway. In a few short he managed to transform in the whole office to a hard to bel…

If they have "X" cases of that, you see that with only years given too...

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by maratc »

iwangulenko wrote: post #322
maratc wrote: post #309

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> Force people My god. Even on LinkedIn it is optional. I was out of work for a year and a half for personal reasons, and I conceal that fact from clueless tech recruiters by having my previous place "2013-2016" and my next as "2017-now". As soon as service "forces people" to fill their form as "tech recruiters" designed, they can just go south.

I just checked: On Linkedin it is indeed optional but they made it look like they force you ( https://imgur.com/a/0wdI3Wy ) I almost always see the dates with a month. CVs are primarily consumed by people who hire people, why wouldn't you listen to what they say? If you had to be out of work for a year and a half for personal reasons, just put it there. Trying to conceal stuff can work, but might not; hence, isn't th…

As a person who "hires people", would it be a good idea for a 50-year old guy to openly state in their CV that e.g. between Mar 2016 and Sep 2017 they were fighting testicular cancer? This wasn't my reason; I'm just asking for a friend.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by Jestar342 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #315
Jestar342 wrote: post #306

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Discard just the photo or the résumé entirely? If the latter - do they acknowledge the irony?

The latter. And what is this "irony" of which you speak?

The irony of attempting to avoid bias, by using "has photo" bias.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Jestar342 wrote: post #353
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #315

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The latter. And what is this "irony" of which you speak?

The irony of attempting to avoid bias, by using "has photo" bias.

NM. It was a joke.

Yeah, it is whacky, but most HR departments are run by lawyers, these days, and lawyers have a strange set of rules.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by systemvoltage »

krageon wrote: post #297
zimpenfish wrote: post #286

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> Find out why they're passionately criticizing it. Sometimes this is just "because they're an arsehole" and the criticism is garbage. > people who are really good at stuff are drowned in the noise Or people who could be really good at stuff get disheartened by the harsh criticism and we as a society lose out.

You could just as easily say that people who respond well to unilateral and energetic feedback are not motivated and society loses out without harsh criticism. It's hard to quantify these things and that means every position is at least a little reasonable.

I'd want society to side with truth over falsehood when either are not easily quantifiable.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by onethought »

chupchap wrote: post #248
onethought wrote: post #244

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I don’t understand the font feedback... can’t you just increase the font size? (The design is responsive to it).

Yes, that is an option, but should the default be so difficult to read especially for a CV?

I thought it was fine. But sure “make the font bigger”

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by onethought »

jdubb wrote: post #249
onethought wrote: post #244

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I don’t understand the font feedback... can’t you just increase the font size? (The design is responsive to it).

Pinch to zoom doesn't work, and I can't find another option to increase the font size. This is on mobile. Are you by chance on pc?

No. Pinch to zoom works fine. PC zoom text works fine.

Hence my comment :/

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by acct776 »

vonmoltke wrote: post #338
acct776 wrote: post #258

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But you handed them in, in person, and had an in person interview. If anything, a picture is a loss of historically available visual data on a hire.

> But you handed them in, in person I have done that exactly once, at a college recruiting event in 2002, and the person who took it and gave me the pre-screen interview never saw me again until after I was hired. > and had an in person interview Are you under the impression this has gone away?

For the privileged of this board, yes.

Tech jobs are all remote, all the time now.

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by Jestar342 »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #354
Jestar342 wrote: post #353

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The irony of attempting to avoid bias, by using "has photo" bias.

NM. It was a joke. Yeah, it is whacky, but most HR departments are run by lawyers, these days, and lawyers have a strange set of rules.

Damn, I figured it could have been. :)

Re: Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

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Post by jlokier »

maratc wrote: post #309
iwangulenko wrote: post #241

Tech recruiter here. Pros: + Very beautifully designed project + Super readability Big, easy to fix negative: Force people to add months to the years! You only asks the year when someone started in "Work Experience". If I read "2012-2013" I can't tell if someone has been at a place ~12 months or ~1 month. This information is very important. Also, please calculate the durations to allow readers to grasp tenure faster.…

> Force people My god. Even on LinkedIn it is optional. I was out of work for a year and a half for personal reasons, and I conceal that fact from clueless tech recruiters by having my previous place "2013-2016" and my next as "2017-now". As soon as service "forces people" to fill their form as "tech recruiters" designed, they can just go south.

At an interview in 2020 I was asked:

"Can you explain the gap in your work history from May 1997 to March 1998?"

My answer:

"You're asking about a gap more than 20 years ago? I just didn't work for a bit, that's all."

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