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AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Easy then. Apply N times, each time with a resume generated by a different LLM. No human is going to notice anyway. Or add a N+1 resume written by yourself in which you describe your strategy, just in case.

Do you really believe no human is going to read your resume at some point in the process and notice the classic AI tells?

Further de-duplication is rather easy, and will likely see you black-listed by competant organisations.

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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post #4

Easy then. Apply N times, each time with a resume generated by a different LLM. No human is going to notice anyway. Or add a N+1 resume written by yourself in which you describe your strategy, just in case.

Happy for everyone trying to invent SEO hacking for resumes.

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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post #11
post #4

Easy then. Apply N times, each time with a resume generated by a different LLM. No human is going to notice anyway. Or add a N+1 resume written by yourself in which you describe your strategy, just in case.

Do you really believe no human is going to read your resume at some point in the process and notice the classic AI tells? Further de-duplication is rather easy, and will likely see you black-listed by competant organisations.

The only resumes that make it past the ai to a human are ai generated

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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I suspect this is more a function of the corporate sanitization of language within the models. When I have passed my resume through the models for refinement, it often sanitizes some of the more easy going or simpler wording. It expands the vocabulary, makes it more dense, and uses more corpo speak in the bullets and formatting.

Each model likely has its own biases in terms of what constitutes correct corporate speak, and it chooses the resumes that best fit this. Ultimately, I suspect it's more a function of model saying "this grammer, syntax structure, and formatting is most aligned with what is correct corporate language, so flag as high quality".

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Anecdata, sample size of one:

When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience

Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to “Analyze my resume and give it a score for what percentage it was in” then I asked it to revise it to make it score as high as possible

I still tweaked and fact checked it but after I started sending that out, I got a much higher hit rate than before

But who knows, maybe the market changed, was a better time of year, etc

I still had to pass interviews and prove my worth. But it probably helped me get my foot in the door

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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post #4

Easy then. Apply N times, each time with a resume generated by a different LLM. No human is going to notice anyway. Or add a N+1 resume written by yourself in which you describe your strategy, just in case.

You don’t understand the problem.

Companies are using AI / LLMs to pre-filter resumes. These AIs prefer their own slop resumes. Not just human vs LLMs, but Claude prefers Claude resumes over ChatGPT. Nothing good can come out of that, when resumes are pre-filtered like that.

Unless, of course, you’re not being serious and just trying to be edgy on HN.

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Intuitively this feels obvious. Content generated by the model will be shaped by its training, therefore when reading it back it will resonate with that same training and have a positive view as a result.

Human when preparing a CV: "Make my CV more professional"

LLM many days later presenting a report to HR: "This CV is really professional"

There's probably more to it than that of course.

But it justifies my personal policy of using a different LLM family for code review tasks than for code generation tasks. To avoid the "marking your own homework" problem.

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Anecdata, sample size of one: When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to “Analyze my resume and give it a score for what percentage it was in” then I asked it to revise it to make it score as high as possible I still tweaked and fact checked it but after I started sending that out, I g…

There are services that will do this as well - I’ve used them both on my LinkedIn and resume with decent success.

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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Anecdata, sample size of one: When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience Just for kicks, I asked ChatGPT to “Analyze my resume and give it a score for what percentage it was in” then I asked it to revise it to make it score as high as possible I still tweaked and fact checked it but after I started sending that out, I g…

I suppose the HR folks gave you a "+1 knows how to use AI".

Re: AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights

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post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you really believe no human is going to read your resume at some point in the process and notice the classic AI tells? Further de-duplication is rather easy, and will likely see you black-listed by competant organisations.

The only resumes that make it past the ai to a human are ai generated

Rather unlikely to be the case, supported by the original article itself here, since if your statement was to be the case they would find that the human generated resume is 100% less likely to be shortlisted.
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