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by mathattack 4639 days ago
My first thought is that this is a great filter.

My second thought is how is this any better than the automated resume screens that companies use on candidates?

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It's not any better. It's fighting back.
The challenge is I can't think of anything better. It just seems like if one complains about too many guns in their neighborhood, there are better solutions than mounting a machine gun on the roof.

Perhaps I have sympathy because I'm a "Take the entire of resumes from HR" type of person. When I was job hunting, I thought that the screening mechanisms for jobs were all pretty bad, so I don't have a "Go to site X for better." I wonder if the net effect of this will be people sanitizing their offerings to hide their culture. Or will it be like attracting like?

> My second thought is how is this any better than the automated resume screens that companies use on candidates?

This one will actually scan the content of the document, instead of just distributing the applications into two halves and outright discarding a random half.

Easiest way to cull hundreds of applications for a single job advert.

Forgive me for being naive, but don't the HR applications scan for keywords?