Dpetters
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12 years ago The guy from greylock said that he never searches by title. Thus we should make it an optional text field.
If we attempt to prefill any of these fields, we should then give the user an opportunity to validate the fields we prefill. I'm not sure how this validation should be done and whether it would require us to re-design the profile form at all. I'd say that this ticket does not involve parsing or validation of parsed data.
Instead of a previous employer dropdown, we should consider moving to a more complete way for students to specify where they have worked.
I envision it be something like the following -
Title Company Currently Working Title dropdown or text input Company Dropdown Checkbox
The decision as to whether the title should be a dropdown or text input would depend on whether we want to allow recruiters to filter by title. If so, then it would be a pre-filled dropdown. Otherwise, it can be a simple input field.
No matter which one we go with, once we begin parsing resumes we could prefill either one (in the dropdown case, it would just involve finding the closest match).
One issue to resolve would be whether the title field would need to be required or not. I would want it to be, but it would mean that once a student goes to edit their profile, they will be forced to fill out positions for all the previous employers that they specified in the past. It would also only be required in the ui, not at the database level.