As a way of automating the drudgery of summarizing an applicant's
skills and experience, this software sounds 80% quite clever and 100%
useless.
Was there a way to provide your feedback on the report itself, Peter?
--- Stuart
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Out of simple interest (at first) I've recently clicked the button on
one site which offered a CV review.
The response indicated that the review depended in part (I suspect
almost entirely) on an analysis provided from the ATS system, and
assured me this is used in most agencies these days.
I was immediately wary -- perhaps with good cause.
Below are some of the results and extracts from my comments on them.
But I should state immediately that there are some other comments
on general style and use of repetitive phrases which I would
acknowledge as being quite useful and a good reminder of a few things
to fix.
However, having done a good deal of Perl regex work on documents over
the years, I was stunned to find how dependent the system appears to
be on what appear to be minor variations in layout or style -- that
is, presumably minor variations from some "established" templates.
...-------OK is it just me ? Yeah, I'm miffed/narked/p*ssed to
find a few decades of experience skipped over and dismissed.
But does anyone know how widespread this (dumb) software is
? (Geoffey?)
I can appreciate the handiness of being able to extract summary
information from loads of documents, but I would have thought in these
days of context analysis and ML and all that, there would be a more
sophisticated method being used (Abstract generation/ TLDR ??).
-Peter M
