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I've built a basic POC for JSON Resume. You can interview or be interviewed by anyone who uses the registry by appending "/interview" to the url
https://registry.jsonresume.org/thomasdavis/interview (it pre-prompts using the data from your resume json)
I've also played with having microphone access, it feels extra natural when you can just talk to "someone".
For extra value, I think you to upload a job description for added context.
What matters in a resume is: Employer name, Your title, brief description of what you did in bullet points.
It does NOT need to use the STAR format.
In responds in third person but can't comprehend questions in third person?
Here's a screenshot of the no-code AI profile build tool: https://imgur.com/a/YKQ902P
I thought I'd get like, 1 upvote and no comments. Y'all are breaking my question review page. I'll need to paginate it.
Sidenote: I was thinking of making an FAQ of my website as one of these AI profiles too. Maybe I should do that.
The count is up to >1700 questions asked, as a networking tool, I guess it does actually draw attention. Lots of good questions too (and some strange ones), y'all are weird.
Timeline:
3hrs: 1300 questions
4hrs: 1700 questions
This is a neat project! I did find the UX a big confusing. If I ask "What was your major?" the start of the answer is "Ian Woods graduated ...". But If I ask "What was Ian's major?" I get "no results". In responds in third person but can't comprehend questions in third person?
The 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.
Any time the resume actually matters (i.e it’s not just a formality during a personal reference application), resumes that are formatted in a standard and machine readable way, don’t use columns, don’t rely on graphics, and hit on the required keywords that match up in ATS systems that’s matching against the job description are going to immediately filter to the top. After that, font sizes and formatting choices that make your resume human scannable and easily referenced help. Even giving your screener margins and space in your resume to write notes or annotate your resume can help a lot. The “in your own words” then finally comes into play once somebody actually reads it after it’s passed 5 prior filtering events.
Playing the game matters a lot when you’re competing with hundreds of other resumes, recruiters and hiring managers are going to spend a few seconds on each one before rejecting it 90% of the time. Getting your resume read is the real challenge.
Problem remains if the model "hallucinates" and makes information up. For example, it says candidate is a Lisp expert and later, turns out not. If even it happens some 10 percent of the time, it'll get a reputation for being unreliable and would lead to "oh, why waste time, I better ask the candidate directly" situations. But other than that, it's a very creative idea. Really. 10 out of 10. EDIT: Idea is great nevert…
This 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…
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Problem remains if the model "hallucinates" and makes information up. For example, it says candidate is a Lisp expert and later, turns out not. If even it happens some 10 percent of the time, it'll get a reputation for being unreliable and would lead to "oh, why waste time, I better ask the candidate directly" situations. But other than that, it's a very creative idea. Really. 10 out of 10. EDIT: Idea is great nevert…
I think there's a lot of work to do to work out the kinks with things like hallucinations, but I think we forget sometimes so much of what we do is statistical in nature already. Your car has a statistical chance of breaking down within x timeframe and while you're on the highway, it's just, low enough that you don't worry about it. I think AI will be a similar thing where we have to get comfortable with how we evaluate and mitigate risks, but like many things, they'll never be 0.