Software Job Matcher – Quickly match your experience to jobs

http://match.talenthunch.com/

by peterwallhead • 10 years ago

4 5 10 years ago

match.talenthunch.com

Neat tool, but the results are disappointing for me. :(

Developer here: Thanks. It becomes more useful with the more language experience you have. Plus, if the languages you use are less common then it will struggle to return relevant job matches.

sparkslabs• 10 years ago

Conflating github projects as being "your experience", is not really sensible really. After all, github is only 8 years old at this point, and many real world projects (ie the day job where your experience lies) can't be in github public repositories. (And for many predate the existance of github)

For a selection of good reasons as to why using github like this is a bad metric take a look at:

https://blog.jcoglan.com/2013/11/15/why-github-is-not-your-c...

(There are lots of good counterpoints to the arguments there in the hackernews discussion of that post here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6738952 - but personally I still think it's incredibly dangerous to start assuming that you can really measure experience from github.

After all, do you also include repositories forked, but not worked on? If so, it'd be incredibly easy to game this...

As a toy it seems kinda fun/neat, but as a tool... far less so.

edem• 10 years ago

Just a note: If I input an invalid username there are no projects but I am not notified that the username was non-existing.

peterwallhead2• 10 years ago

Developer here: Thanks for that. Yep, I haven't worked out a nice way to present that notification yet.

Software Job Matcher – Quickly match your experience to jobs

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