> zero signal: resume & cover letter. applicants will mass-apply with ai-tuned resumes that happen to perfectly match our listing
How often do you interview candidates with bad or mediocre resumes, though? My impression is that a perfectly tuned (and almost certainly dishonest) resume is just table stakes now.
not very often which is why its zero signal
in rare occasions it might go the other way around, like someone who has so much experience they dont need a pretty resume because their work speaks for itself
New grads are the biggest offenders of the resume slop