Sourcing the best resumes
20 Jul 2007Do you have a resume? Do you like to send emails? Then do me a favor, and send your resume to me at one of the email addresses below. The applicant tracking and ranking system I’m building has support for receiving and parsing emails with attached resumes, and I need some testing content as I work on the resume parsing and search. If you send your resume to my resume catcher, you’ll also be helping me write my next blog post on searching data in your Rails application using Sphinx.
I have three “open positions” to which you can “apply”. I’m looking for resumes from web developers, web designers, and system administrators, so I can get a variety of source data for my tests. Here are the email addresses for the positions:
Thanks for your help!
As it’s not what you’re asking for, but I cannot remember when I sent my last Résumé to somebody. I’ve just wrote an URL, my site’s address, with my online one. I think it’s just outdated sending PDF/DOC files in email. And I am definitely a web developer “you’re looking for”, with interesting skills.
I, too, send a link rather than an attachment these days. It’s a bit easier to parse an attachment than discern which links are resumes, though. And luckily, for a large part of my target market, they still get a lot of attachments. :)
Did I get the job? ;)
If I put a link to my LinkedIn profile, you could parse it to see if it’s in the hResume microformat (which you’ll be happy to find it is):
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nathandevries
Mofo (the Hpricot powered microformat parser) will help, in this case.
Great idea, Nathan… thanks!