This is a good point, my comment exchange with Peter was referring to people who did at least one interview or short work trial (2 hours), rather than rejected at the initial step.
Note that at least for Rethink Priorities, a human[1] reads through all applications; nobody is rejected just because of their resume.
[1] It used to be Peter and Marcus, and then as we’ve expanded, researchers on the relevant team, and now we have a dedicated hiring specialist ops person who (among other duties) review the initial application.
Note that at least for Rethink Priorities, a human[1] reads through all applications; nobody is rejected just because of their resume.
I’m a bit confused about the phrasing here because it seems to imply that “Alice’s application is read by a human” and “if Alice is rejected it’s not just because of her resume” are equivalent, but many resume screen processes (including eg Wave’s) involve humans reading all resumes and then rejecting people (just) because of them.
I mean the entire initial application (including the screening questions) is read, not just the resume, and the resume plays a relatively small part of this decision, as (we currently believe) resumes have low predictive validity for our roles.
This is a good point, my comment exchange with Peter was referring to people who did at least one interview or short work trial (2 hours), rather than rejected at the initial step.
Note that at least for Rethink Priorities, a human[1] reads through all applications; nobody is rejected just because of their resume.
[1] It used to be Peter and Marcus, and then as we’ve expanded, researchers on the relevant team, and now we have a dedicated hiring specialist ops person who (among other duties) review the initial application.
I’m a bit confused about the phrasing here because it seems to imply that “Alice’s application is read by a human” and “if Alice is rejected it’s not just because of her resume” are equivalent, but many resume screen processes (including eg Wave’s) involve humans reading all resumes and then rejecting people (just) because of them.
I mean the entire initial application (including the screening questions) is read, not just the resume, and the resume plays a relatively small part of this decision, as (we currently believe) resumes have low predictive validity for our roles.