Context:

Recruiters and practitioners are increasingly relying on online activities of developers to find a suitable candidate. Past empirical studies have identified technical and soft skills that managers use in online peer production sites when making hiring decisions. However, finding candidates with relevant skills is a labor-intensive task for managers, due to the sheer amount of information online peer production sites contain.

Objective:

We designed a profile aggregation tool—Visual Resume—that aggregates contribution information across two types of peer production sites: a code hosting site (GitHub) and a technical Q&A forum (Stack Overflow). Visual Resume displays summaries of developers’ contributions and allows easy access to their contribution details. It also facilitates pairwise comparisons of candidates through a card-based design. We present the motivation for such a design and design guidelines for creating such recruitment tool.

Methods:

We performed a scenario-based evaluation to identify how participants use developers’ online contributions in peer production sites as well as how they used Visual Resume when making hiring decisions.

Results:

Our analysis helped in identifying the technical and soft skill cues that were most useful to our participants when making hiring decisions in online production sites. We also identified the information features that participants used and the ways the participants accessed that information to select a candidate.

Conclusions:

Our results suggest that Visual Resume helps in participants evaluate cues for technical and soft skills more efficiently as it presents an aggregated view of candidate’s contributions, allows drill down to details about contributions, and allows easy comparison of candidates via movable cards that could be arranged to match participants’ needs.

中文翻译：

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视觉简历：探索开发人员对招聘的在线贡献

语境：

招聘人员和从业人员越来越依赖开发人员的在线活动来寻找合适的候选人。过去的实证研究已经确定了管理者在做出招聘决定时在在线同行生产网站中使用的技术和软技能。然而，由于在线同行生产站点包含大量信息，寻找具有相关技能的候选人对经理来说是一项劳动密集型任务。

客观的：

我们设计了一个配置文件聚合工具——Visual Resume——它聚合了两种类型的对等生产站点的贡献信息：代码托管站点 (GitHub) 和技术问答论坛 (Stack Overflow)。Visual Resume 显示开发人员贡献的摘要，并允许轻松访问他们的贡献详细信息。它还有助于通过基于卡片的设计对候选人进行成对比较。我们提出了创建此类招聘工具的此类设计和设计指南的动机。

方法：

我们进行了基于场景的评估，以确定参与者如何在同行生产站点中使用开发人员的在线贡献，以及他们在做出招聘决定时如何使用 Visual Resume。

结果：

我们的分析有助于确定对我们的参与者在在线制作网站上做出招聘决定时最有用的技术和软技能线索。我们还确定了参与者使用的信息特征以及参与者访问该信息以选择候选人的方式。

结论：

我们的结果表明，Visual Resume 有助于参与者更有效地评估技术和软技能的线索，因为它提供了候选人贡献的汇总视图，允许深入了解有关贡献的详细信息，并允许通过可安排的可移动卡片轻松比较候选人匹配参与者的需求。