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Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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Re: Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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That's not what this is though. This is not (just) scraping job postings; the public-facing interface of this is "Greg, who I don't know, wants a job. Here are the jobs that I think would be good for Greg, who again, I don't know". My claim of "bad faith" was specifically because the post, between 1) explicitly pointing to a "full stack ai dev platform" ("So I had abacus.ai whip one up"), and 2) the entire missing li…

I did the exact same thing[1] (minus the AI matching)—in fact, using the public HN firebase API, as you can see. So I fundamentally reject this premise. I had it running for years and no one complained and it scored me a few contracts because I also did a "Show HN:" and some folks liked it. [1] https://github.com/dvx/hackjob/blob/master/assets/app/compon...

Of course tends to be built by people who don’t find it creepy, not really changing anyone’s mind with that line of argument. And you just found plenty of people who consider it creepy and will complain today.

Re: Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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I suppose I could look backwards instead of forwards. Tbf, at this hour, it hadn't even occurred to me.

I wouldn't bother unless you just want to try to compile stats. The active job seekers and the open positions from more than a month ago probably aren't valid today.

It's a bit like backtesting, in finance. Quite useful to establish whether your algorithm is sane and coherent, no use at all in determining if it is actually useful, to my understanding.

Re: Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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Can you add a switch for: • Disable illegal university recruiter pipelines that label all other candidates as “external” which gives them entirely different recruiters and is also illegally shown to the interviewer drastically lowering the chance of the candidate moving forward making it far easier for university and Ivy League grads to get hired over anyone else with the same or better credentials

Is it illegal for an interviewer to know what university you attended? I better change my resume.

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Re: Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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Can you add a switch for: • Disable illegal university recruiter pipelines that label all other candidates as “external” which gives them entirely different recruiters and is also illegally shown to the interviewer drastically lowering the chance of the candidate moving forward making it far easier for university and Ivy League grads to get hired over anyone else with the same or better credentials

I'm having trouble understanding the situation here. Could you expand?

Re: Show HN: HN Match Maker – Matching "Who Wants to Be Hired?" With "Who's Hiring?"

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post #48

This is basically the same keyword matching every job posting uses correct? But the optimal for those isn't to post a generic who wants to be hired but have a LLM rewrite your resume to match the job description isn't it?

> But the optimal for those isn't to post a generic who wants to be hired but have a LLM rewrite your resume to match the job description isn't it?

If anyone was depending on this to actually make interview decisions, yes, that would be something a candidate might do. Fortunately there's not that pressure on this project. :D

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