> Best I could tell, neither of them looked, at least not more than a minute.
I once interviewed a guy with a nice, short 1-pager résumé—not from lack of experience, just a solid, terse document. Not just out of school. Had three or four tech jobs in his history.
He listed one research paper near the bottom, that he'd co-authored in grad school.
I found the paper, skimmed it, and asked him about it in the interview (a lot of times in interviews I just ask candidates about stuff that it seems like they'd know about, that I don't know about, to satisfy my curiosity—I have no idea whether this is good or bad interviewing technique, but my intuition is having someone teach you about something you don't know, that they do, is probably at least as good as asking them to tell you stuff you already know) and he told me I was the only interviewer who'd ever brought it up at all.
My resume is quite similar. On the bottom, I have a link to something that I'm quite proud of under a small heading titled, "Ask me about it!" I've been interviewing passively / casually for the last 18 months. I've spoke to a couple dozen different organizations in that time. I've had exactly 1 person ask me about it. I've thought about removing it from my resume with the thought that maybe people are just put off by it.
Put off? Or lazy? At the end of the day the relationship comes down to "fit". Time and signals are very limited. A bad decision by either party is costly in a number of ways. You threw them a softball and they...couldn't be bothered?
Moi? I'd leave it. Them not looking tells as much as if they do.
I think it's a good approach. My position is: we're considering a possible long term relationship. We both have an interest in this meeting. That is, I hold as many cards as you do.
Those that see it otherwise? That to me a culture red flag. It's an easy swipe left.
I once interviewed a guy with a nice, short 1-pager résumé—not from lack of experience, just a solid, terse document. Not just out of school. Had three or four tech jobs in his history.
He listed one research paper near the bottom, that he'd co-authored in grad school.
I found the paper, skimmed it, and asked him about it in the interview (a lot of times in interviews I just ask candidates about stuff that it seems like they'd know about, that I don't know about, to satisfy my curiosity—I have no idea whether this is good or bad interviewing technique, but my intuition is having someone teach you about something you don't know, that they do, is probably at least as good as asking them to tell you stuff you already know) and he told me I was the only interviewer who'd ever brought it up at all.