Re:Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
by brailsafe on Monday May 27, 2024 @07:22PM
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Any reliable tips for visually structuring a resume so the sections don't get clobbered in OCR? As in, even if I have grouped certain dates, titles, and descriptions together, they often get mismatched.
Re:Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
by Terr_ on Monday May 27, 2024 @08:51PM
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I'm wistfully and nostalgically imagining my resume entirely in OCR-A typeface...
It was cool for/to nerds once, we can do it again!
Re:Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
by ykonstant on Monday May 27, 2024 @08:42PM
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> because we use OCR in our resume parsing
Would this CV be properly parsed? If not, what is wrong with it?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1woxVNcJ4AmT7dD2WEnYr9BHEEY7...
Re:Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
by precompute on Wednesday May 29, 2024 @04:03AM
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I really like how you've included images in the resume, it solidifies your skill and is an easy way to make people read what you've done. However, I think it distracts from the text a bit too much (IMO) so maybe you should add a light background behind the names of the places you've worked at / studied, just to make it stand out.
Re:Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes
by johnnyanmac on Monday May 27, 2024 @10:56PM
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> by just adding a Skills section on your resume.
you may have more skills than what fits on a single page. And I really don't feel like swapping in and out 30 skill for the top 5-8 every time.
It specifically won’t work for us because we use OCR in our resume parsing, so white text on white backgrounds won’t get picked up.
But even if that wasn’t the case, this tweet plays into the fantasy that the an ATS is offering a straight “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” for every candidate. Even if AI is involved in reviewing resumes, it’s likely looking at skills and years of experience and comparing that to a list of requirements for the job. So maybe listing 100 random programming languages in white-on-white might get you somewhere in another tool, but you could probably accomplish almost the same thing without any subterfuge by just adding a Skills section on your resume.