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📣 linamagr

Want to help those who are looking for jobs, looking for career changes


>>> Goal of this post: Created a landing page, looking for feedback: https://oscr.ai/

>>> Product: AI-driven atuomatic resume tailoring tool to the job you want, help pass the HR round

>>> Motivation: As a ML/DS hiring manager, I have found that the biggest challenge for finding the right talent is having to flip the rock and try hard to "spot" the hidden gems.

Must also be my personality, I reviewed everyone's resume (not just the ones filtered by the recruiter), hoping not to miss someone, anyone good!

Concrete example: a) someone from University of Wisconsin-Madison, Phd in Math, data scientist in personalization/pricing etc. great experience. Although I was looking for someone who may have some experience in voice NLP, I thought... perhaps I could talk with this person. b) someone from MIT with Phd in stem, strong researcher, listed some papers hard to understand, but I thought about it for a few min, the hard-to-understand paper might be relevant to what I need.

However, my recruiter disagreed. They were screened out. I begged to talk with them.

I hope to help people to get really "spotted".

  👤 JSeymourATL Accepted Answer ✓
You will have to take over the recruitment process yourself—Which is identifying, assessing, and attracting talent. Assign the recruiter to administrative tasks.

This is mission critical, especially if you are a Line Manager—- and the lack of people is negatively impacting goal attainment (possibly your bonus). You can’t blame HR Bozos. Ultimately, it’s your problem.

Related: There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions > https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2011/04/27/top-exec...

👤 tldrthelaw
Interesting idea, can relate with the problem you're looking to solve. As a former tech person, I find it challenging to get people to look past what I've been doing for the last while and get a better sense of my abilities as a whole. Few people are well summed up by a job title (prospective or otherwise).

Definitely room for something like this in the space.

👤 JSeymourATL
> my recruiter disagreed. They were screened out.

Question: CAN this person do the job successfully?

WOULD they do they job?

Can you LIVE with them?

Sadly, the average corporate recruiter lacks the intellectual curiosity and bandwidth to probe for potential talent.

There are lots of amazing misfits out there, who don’t check off all the boxes.

👤 the_only_law
Any idea why they were screened out?

Anyways, its an interesting idea, I'd personally try to check out, looking for a career change in the future. However, I've used some "AI" buzzword products before that seemed rather superficial and didn't end up being theta helpful, so I'd have to try it.