Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to Optimise my CV

http://pdwhomeautomation.blogspot.com/2017/03/using-ibm-bluemix-watson-apis-to.html

by rbanffy • 9 years ago

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misja111• 9 years ago

Your CV will do especially well at companies which use Watson's Easy Analytics for HR: https://www.ibm.com/analytics/watson-analytics/us-en/hr

ayuvar• 9 years ago

I look forward to this brave new future of fuzz-testing recruiter bots.

akozak• 9 years ago

This is very clever! But it requires trusting that what the API spits back is actually reflective of how your words are perceived.

In theory you could test whether an "optimized" CV actually leads to better results. But in practice that's very challenging for one person to do, since the sample size is small and you're testing live with your own career...

tcmb• 9 years ago

It also assumes that the recruiters are looking for this personality profile that the author is shooting for. Maybe they don't want someone with 100% confidence, because such people could also be cocky and stubborn.

dallamaneni• 9 years ago

That is cool. Most of the sentiment analysis APIs I saw just give a -1 to +1 score based on positive or negative feeling but looks like Watson APIs are much more elaborate.

zeveb• 9 years ago

I rather hope that a blog entry about optimising one's CV would do even more for one's prospects than an optimised CV!

The next step, of course, would to write software which made changes to the CV; then one could iterate until getting the perfect CV blurb. It'd work in theory anyway …

Entangled• 9 years ago

"who always who"

Proofread a thousand times before submitting.

mxuribe• 9 years ago

Very clever approach to CV optimization; dare I say, even disruptive. Any time the product of one "robot" goes against the product of another "robot", makes me smile. ;-)

supergirl• 9 years ago

can you also benchmark this script and see how it compares to watson:

def analyzeFeeling(text) {

  if text contains "scared, worried and frightened" then fear = 0.7

  if text contains "happy" then anger = 0.1

  if text contains "confident" then confident = 0.8

  if text contains "conscientious" then conscientiousness = 0.4

  return (fear, confident, anger, conscientiousness)

}

maxpupmax• 9 years ago

Why?

rkuykendall-com• 9 years ago

I think it's a joke that the analysis provided here by an incredibly complex cloud machine learning service doesn't seem very different from applying an incredibly naive bag of words.

splatcollision• 9 years ago

Very cool - Tone Analyzer is one of the more useful Watson APIs. For anyone curious about 'is it doing anything really', their references go into more of how it works under the hood: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/tone-analyzer/...

inputcoffee• 9 years ago

Is there any data on resumes accepted vs. rejected for the interview?

I would love to go one step further with efficacy feedback.

smarx007• 9 years ago

With this kind of optimisation, Watson (and many of us) needs a BS score for each sentence...

freehunter• 9 years ago

That's called a CV.

ITN1nja• 9 years ago

I think this is a cool, and a bit frightening use of cloud/A.I.. Of course, as misja111 mentioned, the CV should reliably play well in HR groups that use the same analytics, and that is where it gets a bit frightening. I would hate to be saddled with someone who has gamed the system with an optimized CV/Resume that was easily green-lit through analytics, but I would hope that some manual filtering is still in place. Then again, it isn't like lying on a CV/Resume is a NEW thing...

ben_jones• 9 years ago

How is it different from a candidate who is related to the CEO etc.? If anything (at least in software) for now it would indicate a highly capable and inventive candidate.

code4tee• 9 years ago

...but could you have just done this with some basic free open source tools (e.g. a few lines of Python).

With too many of these "look what I did with IBM/Watson" the answer is usually very much yes and thus the challenge with IBM's long term value proposition with their platform. It's cool stuff, but you very much don't need IBM/Watson to do it.

anigbrowl• 9 years ago

Using this pumice soap to get my chains really shiny

dbg31415• 9 years ago

Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to Optimise my CV

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