[Troll_Whisperer]

What it does in practice is encourage keyword-stuffing.

I've been going through dozens of iOS and webdev resumes a week and about two in three have the right keywords. Their skills don't correlate strongly with those keywords. What has gotten dramatically better results for me has been this: put programmers through some automated programming tests (kind of like an in house version of interviewstreet.com), and filter any graphic artists / designer entirely based off of their portfolios.

That has quickly weeded out those who can't code (or design).

[seanjohnson]

Interview street looks fantastic. You probably don't need a system like this for dev hires with a tool like that.

And you're right about designers - I look at portfolios more than anything else. This system does save me having to look at resumes to figure out whether they have a portfolio or not. It at least weeds out that third :)