Because anyone who considers not doing so has to explain to themselves why they are forcing their children to spend their childhoods getting resumés? Just a wild guess.
Broke: algorithms are sexist Joke: people are sexist Woke: maybe lacrosse-playing Jareds really are just better at everything, as we all suspected in high school Me: why the fuck are we still using resumes as the key layer for filtering in the hiring processhttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1054638180404580352 …
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Here is how I explain: "Directing children's activities is insurance for their future. Insurance should only cost a few percentage points. My child does not go to school. She can do whatever she wants, excepting 5% of her waking hours, which I direct for insurance purposes."
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Same problem in dating profiles. In both dating and a job, the thing you want is never one thing, but a subtle combination of things (how well you communicate with each other, how nice, how setbacks are handled, etc). So... what are better ways of filtering?
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Watch dancers dance. Asking candidates to spend a reasonable amount of time (30-60 minutes) doing a small piece of representative work, then giving them feedback on that work. There are services to make it easier, but it's doable with free tools for any knowledge work gig.
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“I’m sorry, prosecutor, our hiring algorithm only provides zero-knowledge proofs for which candidate is the best hire.”
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resumes are useful as a filter. if you hire < 2% of applicants as we do they are useless as a positive signal but many many people can be excluded just based on the amount of dumb in their careers up to now
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How confident are you about that false negative rate? If it's 10% and you eliminate 90% of candidates at resume/phone screen, there are almost as many great candidates in the dead pool as your selected pool. A filter is necessary, but it's not clear resumes are the right choice
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Europeans: What is lacrosse?
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Work sample tests are the gold standard, but it's easy to beat resumes in predictiveness. Companies like Zapier and Auth0 start with a few written questions like "Tell me about the technical project where you made the biggest impact" or "How do you keep learning?"
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