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by quadrifoliate
2081 days ago
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> When I review resumes, I spend about 30s per resume on my first pass through. This is where I just visually scan the document for keywords. For example, if I was hiring a Django developer, I'd look for Django...Once I've completed the first pass, I take a deeper dive into the shortlisted resumes, decide who I want to interview, etc. The way I see it is that this kind of resume is explicitly reverse filtering against hiring processes like yours. Creative people don't want to be compared in the hiring process as part of a "shared folder" against 300 other people, because it becomes basically an SEO game. (Note that this is not saying your process is wrong, it's just not a good fit for more creative and freewheeling programmers). |
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My environment is focused on supporting/enhancing/fixing the commercial ERP system that we use to run our business. There's room for creativity, but at the end of the day it's still about supporting a relatively boring HR/Financial system. Technology is not our core business, but we do invest in it in order to better execute on our core business.
Some people thrive working on these systems and in this type of environment, but others would be bored to tears.
If it does work as a reverse filter like you suggest, I lose out on a really good developer, but the really good developer avoids taking a job that he'd find soul destroying. Overall, that's probably a win.