| Hey I launched Leet Resumes on HN a couple years ago - love what you’re doing with this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678568 The biggest challenge you’ll find is not getting the info OUT to the reader / recruiter / hiring manager, but getting the information IN to your system. You’ll start with the resume, but most people don’t put enough about their specific achievements and accomplishments in their resume in the first place. As we write great professional resumes for free, we needed a fast, scalable way to get more info from each user. We’ve used AI to help us ask better questions (“As a front-end engineer did you ever have to scale by 10x or orders of magnitude? What did you do and what worked well?”) so that we could get better answers and turn it into better information. Will the Chat UI replace reading linear text? At our sister company Ladders, we rather famously ran the study that led to the factoid that recruiters look at your resume for six seconds on first pass. For a while, people were touting video as a replacement for resumes, but the challenge always ended up being that people can read/scan at far, far greater rate of speed than they can listen. I guess we will see the same trade-off preference development with Chat, but time will tell. Overall, great innovation and clever use of the new tech. |
I needed to balance import everything with no user input (which is prone to hallucinations and doesn't give you an idea of how the AI will answer about you) and asking the user to do too much.
I landed on a halfway point kind of like writing little blurbs about your career that you can add on incrementally. Unlike retraining an AI, you can just add incremental bits.
So the current form is import resume/blog post/etc which generates questions and answer pairs called 'Snippets'. You can add more detail since the resume is usually pretty vague, then officially add these Snippets to your AI.
Once people ask you questions, if there is an answer, it'll use those blurbs. If there is no information yet, it'll say so. You will see all the questions asked of your AI so you can incrementally add Snippets on your Monday night or whatever based on what people had asked your AI profile.
I might change it, but this seems like a good balance between automation, giving you control, and making it incrementally updatable.
Btw, it's all zero-latency, if you make a change, it basically takes immediate effect on your AI. This was an important property to me.