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  • FWIW, the user link is not working for me. I get 404.
    by jeenuv
  • This is basically the same keyword matching every job posting uses correct?

    But the optimal for those isn't to post a generic who wants to be hired but have a LLM rewrite your resume to match the job description isn't it?

    by nottorp
  • This is neat! What I would do is I would have a list of tags and make sure every post gets pigeonholed into those because otherwise it might be hard to match tags if extracted on a per-post basis (e.g. I see `large-scale data systems` for a job listing, which will rarely match a candidate because it's so wordy).

    Cool product though.

    by dvt
  • It would be more useful if next to "remote" it also shows where the company actually is. I am sure many people don't want to work for us companies. Otherwise cool project
    by herbst
  • I think building a matching engine for this particular market is a cursed mission.

    These two flavors of recurring thread read like oil and water to me.

    by bob1029
  • Did the same experiment sometime ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48764151
    by lellow
  • I left an incomplete section in the post body, then went shopping.

    So here it is:

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    Some observations when looking at the matches pair up right now:

    - individuals looking for jobs have extremely general postings

    - companies looking to hire have extremely specific postings

    - generally, match scores are very low (<50%) because of this mismatch

    - individuals don't typically mention domain knowledge in any specific way

    - individuals don't typically mention prior work history beyond time-in-industry (this makes sense on a public forum)

    - individuals typically list technologies used

    I don't have any conclusions to make right now, no advice for job posters or job seekers. It'll take two or three more of these before I've seen enough to start gelling the domain problems in my head.

    by all2
  • > If you've submitted a post to this month's 'Who Wants to Be Hired?", you can find your matching job listings at https://hnmatchmaker.com/user/:user_name, for example https://hnmatchmaker.com/user/G4Vi

    I'm sure you mean well but as someone who has considered posting on who wants to be hired in the past.... this is creepy AF and feels like a giant invasion of privacy. If you did it privately, or authenticated people in some way, sure, but as is it feels like you're putting people on blast.

    Also this sounds way more like an advertisement for "abacus.ai" than a side project announcement.

    Your post also starts a list of "things" ("Some observations when looking at the matches pair up right now:") with no list.

    Actually, nothing about this really feels good faith, or real.

    by nrmitchi

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