"If I read the paper correctly, they don’t actually show that LLMs prefer resumes they generate.
Their actual method seems to be taking a human written resume, deleting the executive summary, having an LLM rewrite the executive summary based on the rest of the resume and then having another LLM rate the executive summary without the rest of the resume.
That’s likely to massively overstate any real impact, if you can even rely on it capturing a real effect.
I really wonder if I read that correctly, because I can’t come up with a justification for that study design."
[0] I couldn't help but mildly copy-edit before pasting here.
Edit: yes, the authors present a reason for their design, and an ideal version of my comment would've said that. I do not consider it much of a justification. See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47987256#47987727.