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Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by digging »

mpeg wrote: post #6
ssharp wrote: post #4

I'm generally confused by how much "ATS-friendly" matters, or what that even means. On one side of the coin, it logically makes sense that ATS systems would help recruiters pare down the list. I'd assume there is some auto-rejection happening, but how sensitive is it (getting rid of clearly unqualified candidates vs. rejecting marginal candidates vs. actually qualified but still rejected due to not being ATS-friendly…

The ATS won't judge a resume, but it will parse it and display in an easier format for the recruiter to browse through. If your resume does not parse well (for example, a PDF with two columns can sometimes mean the right column text ends up above the left column text) the recruiter will have outdated / wrong information in front of them when they make the decision to do a screening call or not I know because my cv ha…

Kinda seems idiotic that we're making PDFs of our resume data in the first place then. I know that's backwards historically, since paper resumes came first, but at this point it should just be a JSON file right? Let the hiring company's automation ingest the data and spit it out in whatever readable format they like.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by jimbokun »

ineedtosleep wrote: post #22
ssharp wrote: post #4

I'm generally confused by how much "ATS-friendly" matters, or what that even means. On one side of the coin, it logically makes sense that ATS systems would help recruiters pare down the list. I'd assume there is some auto-rejection happening, but how sensitive is it (getting rid of clearly unqualified candidates vs. rejecting marginal candidates vs. actually qualified but still rejected due to not being ATS-friendly…

As for someone looking for a new position, I can give you anecdotal evidence. A little background: I have 10+ years of professional experience. Polyglot. Experience with extremely small to medium sized companies. I re-used my previous resume, which did decently well around 2019 when I was looking for a new position, but with updated info for the newest position I had. Applied to a number positions that I was very qua…

So Search Engine Optimization for resumes.

Need to optimize your web site/resume for Google/ATS.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by [deleted] »

slg wrote: post #18

This is not a criticism of this software or the author as they have no personal responsibility for the larger system they operate in, but sometimes I see something like this, and I just think we live in a dystopia. Have we gotten to the point that jobseekers and employers are using adversarial AIs against each other in some attempt at optimization? What are we doing here? We seem to be on the path to this stuff oozin…

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Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by varelse »

willsmith72 wrote: post #9
ssharp wrote: post #4

I'm generally confused by how much "ATS-friendly" matters, or what that even means. On one side of the coin, it logically makes sense that ATS systems would help recruiters pare down the list. I'd assume there is some auto-rejection happening, but how sensitive is it (getting rid of clearly unqualified candidates vs. rejecting marginal candidates vs. actually qualified but still rejected due to not being ATS-friendly…

ATS optimisation is absolutely critical these days, at least in tech. With the amount of applications you receive, the easiest first step is looking for a way to exclude someone. If your ATS can't even parse someone's CV properly, that's a great way to exclude it from consideration. The next level is keyword matching. If your ATS can't find any of the keywords from your listing in the CV, another easy exclusion. The…

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Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by garyfirestorm »

manicennui wrote: post #30
redundantly wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately this doesn't line up with reality. "Tricks" like these are needed to get through the nonsensical recruitment/HR obstacle course for many companies.

I have never had to do anything like this, and I have never applied to more than a few companies before receiving an offer except during the dotcom crash. Even then it wasn't dozens of companies.

Can you provide some context to your past experiences? In x years, I had y number of jobs, of those y jobs, I only had to apply to z number of companies before getting an interview?

Also, say google is hiring an ML engg and there are 1000 applications, what do you think does the recruiter do to 1000 resumes?

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by srbhr »

JCharante wrote: post #35

> Warning > The results returned from through the web app are currently entirely mocked / faked. This means that the results returned are not real and are just for demonstration purposes. This will be implemented with real data results in a future release. Is this ready for use yet?

Hi, the web-app is in development. And the way to use this is Streamlit interactive or the streamlit app. With your Qdrant and Cohere API keys for Semantic similarity.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by srbhr »

srbhr wrote: post #46
JCharante wrote: post #35

> Warning > The results returned from through the web app are currently entirely mocked / faked. This means that the results returned are not real and are just for demonstration purposes. This will be implemented with real data results in a future release. Is this ready for use yet?

Hi, the web-app is in development. And the way to use this is Streamlit interactive or the streamlit app. With your Qdrant and Cohere API keys for Semantic similarity.

I'll be more than happy, if you can contribute to the development of the Web App. _/\_

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by m3047 »

Upvoted this post. I see it's Apache licensed, somebody should be running it somewhere as a service with an easy, small payments option. A service which genuinely validates a resume as parseable by the majority of popular ATS and even spits out a summary would be useful from an adversarial (applicant) POV. I'd pay $5-$10 by credit card if I trusted the processor. I'm not worried about privacy particularly, given that resumes are routinely uploaded to e.g. Virus Total although it would be nice if it wasn't a wholesale clearinghouse for plagiarism and copying.

This came up recently somewhere else and my two cents:

1) The best role for LLMs in ATS is in rewriting all resumes consistently in a style which matches the biases / "likings" of the reviewer (Humphry Bogart, Exene Cervenka, Kermit the Frog). Applicants guessing at this merely gives them a better shot at being mistakenly included in the cohort which adopts the preferred voice "naturally". If this "liking" is what resumes are supposed to be judged on then where's the math, it's all a smokescreen for bias innit?

2) Some ATS needs to be the first mover in allowing applicants to download / upload a JSON BLOB of all of their info. I'd recommend cryptographically signing it (and calling it a "service") on download like DKIM, and I think a bunch of things would emerge with that.

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by JCharante »

srbhr wrote: post #46
JCharante wrote: post #35

> Warning > The results returned from through the web app are currently entirely mocked / faked. This means that the results returned are not real and are just for demonstration purposes. This will be implemented with real data results in a future release. Is this ready for use yet?

Hi, the web-app is in development. And the way to use this is Streamlit interactive or the streamlit app. With your Qdrant and Cohere API keys for Semantic similarity.

I'm not familiar with streamlit. So streamlit is another way to interact with the backend? How can we see the results?

Re: Resume Matcher – An open source, free tool to improve your resume

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Post by garyfirestorm »

I read the 'How does it work?' section and tried a job description and couple of my resumes. I don't fully understand how this tool should be used/or what it is telling me about my resume.

It gives values for keywords from resume (got it) Then it finds common words between Job Description and Resume I also see another table of values for the job description

Now what? Do I need to compare the tables? Do the values need to be within certain range?

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