Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
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Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#2[I start a quick skim of the article...and run into a wall of all-italics text, with plenty of hype-happy words & phrases.]
[I stop caring. The authors seem so wired on hype, caffeine, or something that I wouldn't trust their assertion that 14^2 = 196.]
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#3Coin flip stands for 50/50 that would indicate good and bad resume. A random rating of 1 to 10 would already unlikely deliver any useful results.
Didn’t read the article.
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#4“When recruiters predicted the lowest probability of passing (0-5%), those candidates actually passed the technical interview with a 47% probability.”
Well, that’s disturbing.
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#5we (developers) used to gatekeep recruiters, and now recruiters gatekeep us.
where did we go wrong...
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#6Are there any other business constructs that are similarly as universally bad as recruitment? Like which stakeholder actually thinks they're any good? Maybe certain kinds of outsourcing would be comparable, where someone sees a cost savings but otherwise doesn't care at all about the outcome?
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#7HN would be up in arms if “developers” were painted with the same brush to the degree that HN stereotypes basically every other profession.
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#8> If this was predicting student performance, recruiters would be off by two full letter grades.
Well, that's not that uncommon in humanities when you're above a certain threshold…
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#9The software engineering world is fortunate to have the concept of open source, which allows filtering of candidates based on previous published work. Since today we have many open source active candidates, it makes selection much easier compared to unknown candidates. My advice to job seekers - you’re reducing your employment chances if you dont have example projects published.
Re: Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data
#10we (developers) used to gatekeep recruiters, and now recruiters gatekeep us. where did we go wrong...
what is your own theory on what happened?