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> a rejected resume is more likely to be rejected by every other employer

This makes sense to me, albeit intuitively and in a way I can't articulate.

> an accepted resume is more likely to be accepted by every other employer

but this doesn't necessarily follow from the prior for me. Plenty of people get really good jobs and are really successful in them only after dozens or hundreds of rejections with a nearly-identical resume.

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If you look at the chart, the systemic rejection rate is only like 5-10%. It’s not a huge impact and it’s just about getting an interview not getting the job, so they could still get rejected.

I just think certain resumes will get an interview almost every time in some industries and certain resumes will likely never get an interview almost every time, but the majority of resumes are like you say have different aspects that appeal to one empoyer over another.

The intuition is that they are not truly independent statistical events. Each trial reveals more information about the underlying "quality" of the resume (for passing this trial, not necessarily real world "quality" of the candidate). We are not rolling dice where each toss is fundamentally unrelated to prior tosses.

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