Ask HN: Can you use AI/ML to match software engineering resumes with jobs?
There are quite a few startups that purport to match candidates with jobs based on their resumes?(Linkedin, Hired, etc). None of them seem to work very well.
The current state of the hiring process is to have recruiters curate the set of resumes that have applied for a job and then have the candidates go through an interview process (typically 1-2 phone screens + 4-5 onsite interviews). Most companies in the bay area have about a 5% conversion rate (Phone screen to offer).
Do you believe there is some latent information at the top of the funnel that can be added to make hiring more efficient? Can we increase the conversion rate beyond 5%?
Can the resume screening process by a recruiter be automated? If not, why not? It can be argued that we can build algorithms that remove bias and have a better conversion rate than 5%.
The current state of the hiring process is to have recruiters curate the set of resumes that have applied for a job and then have the candidates go through an interview process (typically 1-2 phone screens + 4-5 onsite interviews). Most companies in the bay area have about a 5% conversion rate (Phone screen to offer).
Do you believe there is some latent information at the top of the funnel that can be added to make hiring more efficient? Can we increase the conversion rate beyond 5%?
Can the resume screening process by a recruiter be automated? If not, why not? It can be argued that we can build algorithms that remove bias and have a better conversion rate than 5%.