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The problem is we have too many applicants to phone screen them all. For a lot of jobs today you end up with 10,000 applications, which is why these automated resume-skimming systems exist, but unfortunately this page shows how they basically don't work

by conductr1 days ago|

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People seem to hit a wall when flooded by resumes. They feel like there some needle in the haystack they need to find and it’s overwhelming. But you don’t have to read all of them. Or talk to all of them. Or use a system like this to filter.

If you know what you’re looking for, you just start skimming them and maybe ranking them based on your own rubric. If it’s an obvious “no” you can usually tell within 5 seconds skim. Once you have a handful of high ranking ones, stop, and talk to them. Repeat as necessary until you have a short list of people you’d want to hire. There might be 9900/10000 resumes you never even looked at and maybe one of them would have been slightly better but you can’t let perfection be the enemy of progress. Stand by your convictions of feeling the candidate is qualified and capable and meets what you expect and hire them, get back to business.

Having been in “talent shortage” mode for a long while I’d rather have 10000 resumes than 3. Having to pick one from a suboptimal selection is an awful position to be in, but sometimes a necessity.