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Comment by marcosdumay | Hacker News Reader

You mean that if you sent links to your Gitlab or Sourcehut profiles (or even your personal site) when asked for your Github profile, those recruiters would refuse to look at it?

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If you replace "refuse" by "not bother to", the sentence suddenly becomes very believable. When you have dozens of resumes to sift through, and one applicant is difficult for no apparent reason, it's very easy not to bother. It's going to require a bit of effort to switch to the gitlab context and figure out the interface if the recruiter isn't used to it, which is annoying. Unless you already stand out for some positive reason, you don't really want to stand out for being annoying.

Well I personally am sick of seeing github profiles that are just a bunch of trash commits. List specific projects, what you contributed, and a link to who cares which service on your resume. Way easier to read

Well if clicking a link to your Gitlab profile is more difficult than clicking a link to your Github profile... yes, that could happen.

I have no idea how it could happen in practice. It's quite believable that there is some recruiter out there that has this kind of problem. But I do think it's quite safe to assume most of the tiny minority that will click on the link will get the same information from either one.

yeah i think they're much less likely to look at it, unless they're already significantly interested in you as a candidate for some other reason. We're in a competitive marketplace and having a profile that stands out is definitely an edge

Wouldn't a personal site stand out more if everyone has a GitHub?

remember that a recruiter is probably spending about 30 seconds assessing your job application, and that you're one candidate out of dozens. In that environment they're going to go with the easy route and showing them a bunch of pinned, interesting repos with a healthy number of stars in a format they're used to is going to help them to quickly put you in the "maybe" pile rather than the "nope" pile.

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