Ilasky

Sure! You can try it at https://resgen.app.

As someone that’s actively developing a tool to help tailor resumes to job descriptions, I’ve found it to be a boon to my callbacks, if done correctly with care.

Frankly, as someone that’s had a bit of a rough time getting through screens, it’s super demoralizing to put honest effort into applications only to get an insta-rejection.

These tools are just putting power back into the applicants’ hands that companies have had access to for a while now and I’m here for it.[0]

[0] https://resgen.app/blog/shifting-power

These are some really interesting results that I have felt empirically, but is great to put some data to. One thing this doesn’t take into account is the best practice of tailoring resumes to job descriptions. This is a time-intensive task that does actually improve call back rates. A bit of a self-plug, but I’ve made Resgen[0] to help do this for you.

[0] https://resgen.app

I also like goatcounter for simple analytics - just what I need and nothing more. I can also vouch for plausible and really like their product too

Violin! It was a pandemic hobby I started in 2020, but has turned into a super important aspect of my daily life. I played sax for about 12 years, but wanted to learn something completely different and that always seemed “virtuosic” in my eyes.

Been an awesome journey and just about to learn my first Bach Violin Sonata!

Currently finding my own path and one bit of advice that I thought was incredibly helpful is from Dr. Stutz.

The advice is a bit new-age-y, but I think it rings true nevertheless. It’s about working on your “life force”[0], which can be represented as a pyramid with three sections: body, people, self.

Start moving your body, getting good sleep, eating well. Then focus on your connections with others, developing friendships, relationships. Leaning on others and letting them lean on you. And then you have self development: working on skills, learning, experiencing things.

The idea is that by focusing on developing and growing your “life force” it’ll help figure out how to move forward.

[0] https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/life-force-aspects-of-r...

It's a bit tangential to searching, but the tool I made, Resgen[0], helps tailor resumes to job descriptions. Made it for myself, but after helping others with their resumes, I built it out for others to use as well. The plan is to develop it to be an all-in-one recruiter that sources jobs for you to apply to.

For now, though, I'm mostly just using LinkedIn and Otta to source jobs.

[0] https://resgen.app

It was/is rougher than in the past, for sure. Connecting with recruiters, sending tailored resumes, and the whole process is legitimately taxing. (As a minor plug, I made a tool that takes care of the resume tailoring for me because I got so tired of doing it[0])

But on the whole, the strategy of applying, reaching out to the recruiter/hiring manager, and showing up with your interest has resulted in better outcomes, at least in my experience.

[0] https://resgen.app

I’ve actually built Resgen[0] to help tailor resumes to job descriptions. It’s been a boon for my own job search, getting me a lot more call backs. I plan to build it out to a whole personal recruiter that sources and applies to jobs for me.

As for sites, LinkedIn and Otta are the two that I’ve had the most results from.

[0] https://resgen.app

One thing that is really touched upon in the article is tailoring resumes to the jobs. It’s a skill in and of itself and is something I’ve found brings a lot more success when getting call backs, in my experience.

However, it’s incredibly time consuming to do this for every job application. A lot of times, it just hits an ATS system and gets trashed before it even reaches a person.

A bit of a self-plug, but I’ve made Resgen[0] to help with just this issue (initially made for myself) - it tailors your experiences to the job description to give you better odds of actually getting in front of an actual person.

[0] https://resgen.app

My version of this problem is when there are violin scenes in movies/TV shows. It’s immediately clear when someone is not in sync with the music, has bad form, and generally just doesn’t know how to play. It just zaps me out of the scene.

However, if the scene/actor actually knows how to play, then it’s an awesome surprise and I have even more respect for the scene.

The most recent example of the latter is in Ted Lasso, when Nate plays the violin - it’s legit and a great scene.

TwoSetViolin regularly review movies of both good and violin portrayal[0, 1]

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=e9dfCRbrlkU

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=vR_VbDd-CA8

When I was in Colombia, the thing that jarred me the most about flying was that people waited for their turn to get out of their seats. It was a block system (e.g., rows 1-5, then 6-10, etc.) Honestly, it was refreshing compared to everyone jumping out of their seats and then trying to bolt to the front of the plane to get off as fast as possible.

Hey that sounds similar to what I’m working on![0] Neat to hear about other implementations.

[0] https://resgen.app

That said, I am definitely going to look into this library and compare its results to guidance, since they claim it blows it out of the water (which is very enticing!)

Good catch! It really is a combination of guidance guaranteeing JSON output and OpenAI getting it right a good majority of the time[0]. But yeah, I can see how it can be frustrating that the JSON output is not guaranteed by the docs.

[0] >>99% in my experience

OpenAI has this capability built in with functions[0], I believe! Building my own project[1] I have implemented functions in combination with guidance[2] and haven’t had a hiccup yet! I have a JSON parser function there, just in case, but it seems to be working reliably.

Here’s a bit more of a description of using the functions API for JSON returns: https://yonom.substack.com/p/native-json-output-from-gpt-4

[0] https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...

[1] https://resgen.app

[2] https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance

This is some awesome analysis - great job! And I’ve seen it first-hand from my own job hunt with different success looking for data scientist vs ML/AI engineer positions.

I think it really comes down to a lot of marketing, which you touch upon a bit. AI is in a hype cycle right now and people want it on their products and in their companies, so they want people that are capable of bringing those skills to the table.

My own search has been on LinkedIn, as well as sites like Otta. The key for me to get more callbacks has been to personalize my resume for each job description (I even made a tool to do it for me [0]) and then to follow up with the hiring managers for the job.

Out of the stacks of resumes that get submitted to the black hole, it really does feel like a grind, but the little bit extra by reaching out to the recruiters/hiring managers seems to make the boost to at least get to the first round screen.

[0] https://resgen.app

I've been on the receiving end of some of these and it's so dehumanizing.

Relatedly, some ATS systems are systematically filtering candidates that would otherwise be qualified just because of some algorithmic resume scoring going on in the background. I'm building out Resgen[0] to fight back against these systems and really put power back in job candidate's hands because a lot of these processes are getting ridiculous.

[0] https://resgen.app

Ah - I wish I took more photos. I only have some in-progress photos around. I'll upload them a little later today.

I love the simple wood look of your pieces! Really elegant looking.

I made one of those Word Clocks using an arduino, glass, wood, paint, a couple buttons, and a laser cutter.

I painted a pane of glass white, then black, and created the file for all the letter to say the time as well as happy birthday. Took it to a laser cutter to etch it into the glass.

Made a backing with leds programmed to display correctly the date and time, iterate through colors, modes, etc.

I also made it in Hebrew too. I have the code somewhere if others are interested in making it.

Edit: Here is the code in case anyone else wants to use it https://github.com/imlasky/wordclock

We got a similar issue in Boston - the Storrow bridge. So much so we call it "getting Storrowed"[0]

[0] https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2021/08/19/boston-sto...

What kind of hardware do I need to run this sufficiently well? I.e. say I want 10 tokens/s, what specs am I looking at?

I’ve tried multiple translation apps for real-time translation between English and Korean, including Google Translate, Apple Translate, Microsoft Translator, and Papago (by Naver).

Surprisingly, Microsoft translator is the best for real-time translation. It’s still rough, but it’s able to keep up in real-time. Google doesn’t have the transcribe mode for the Korean-English language pair, and neither does Apple or Papago. Really surprised those other services don’t have it

Location: Boston, MA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, JavaScript, Svelte(kit), pandas, numpy, matplotlib

Resume: Available upon request

Email: ianmlasky [at] gmail [dot] com

Available: Immediately

Previous senior data scientist and strategy consultant looking for a PM role. I have experience being a founder, building products, and talking to users.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll experiment with it - currently still early stages and feeling out what people are comfortable with.

Gotta love Sveltekit SSR for snappy response

Hey thanks!

Nice! I've used Rezi a couple of times.

I plan to have support for other job boards (greenhouse, ashby, indeed, etc.) soon.