The computers rejecting job applications

Re:The computers rejecting job applications by SharpeDidntFoul on Monday February 08, 2021 @01:34PM (#26068264)

I kind of rambled on about this in another comment on this thread, but I paid someone $250 to optimize my resume with key words to appease AI. It worked. I got automated replies to schedule phone screenings from jobs that had rejected my old resume. It's already happening.

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by xyzelement on Monday February 08, 2021 @08:45PM (#26072848)

I am curious what they did - can you share high level details? EG: if you're a developer, did they add more technologies, or what was the type of thing?

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by Frazmatazz on Monday February 08, 2021 @10:59PM (#26073642)

The very fact that they serve many clients gives the service a good view on what generates increased response rates.

I once scraped a bunch of job postings and did a simple word frequency count. Just eyeballing the list, I picked out a few of the most commonly mentioned techs and skills. By just rewording a few of my resume entries, it seemed to increase my response rate by quite a bit.

For example, in the description of one project I added "using JSON". It wasn't particularly important to that project that the exchange format used was JSON, but apparently many of those doing hiring are seeing fit to include that in their searches.

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Re:The computers rejecting job applications by gifnamething on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:07AM (#26077020)

Business plan: Undercut Pymetrics by offering a free service. Dominate the market. Then, monetise it by selling optimisation to the applicants.

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