Ask HN: Have You Changed Your Resumé Due to LLM Filters?

[burger_moon]

Resumé filters aren’t a new thing but with better and more fine tuned filtering I wonder if I should be making changes to my resumé?

If you have made changes, what type of changes have you made?

Does the proliferation of LLM resumé filters give more weight to well crafted cover letters?

[Snoozle]

I don't have any discussion on the LLM factor of this conversation, but I'll weigh in on cover letters. As a hiring manager running a fully remote team with medium-low on the pay scale, I can tell you that any open position I post is inundated with 700+ resumes. This is after initial HR filtering. There is no way realistically for me to review all of these resumes, and cover letters I will just completely ignore. I basically draw arbitrary lines in the sand to reduce resume count below 100 (college degree, no unemployment gaps, at least 2 years exp at each job), and even then it feels like throwing darts to pick a reasonable amount of candidates to interview (10-15). And don't even get me started on the candidates that don't actually have any of the experience that is on their resume, or that are googling every question I ask, or are showing up on camera in sweat pants and a tank top.

I dread interviewing and will almost always just ask my network or coworkers for referrals because posting positions online seems such a terrible way to source candidates these days.

[Peroni]

If you have 700+ resumes after initial HR filtering then your HR filter is horrific.