Visual Resume: Exploring developers’ online contributions for hiring

Recruiters and practitioners are increasingly relying on online activities of developers to find a suitable candidate. Past empirical studies have identified technical soft skills that managers use in peer production sites when making hiring decisions. However, finding candidates with relevant is labor-intensive task for managers, due the sheer amount information contain. We designed profile aggregation tool—Visual Resume—that aggregates contribution across two types sites: code hosting site (GitHub) Q&A forum (Stack Overflow). Visual Resume displays summaries developers’ contributions allows easy access their details. It also facilitates pairwise comparisons through card-based design. present motivation such design guidelines creating recruitment tool. performed scenario-based evaluation identify how participants as well they used Our analysis helped identifying skill cues were most useful our decisions sites. features ways accessed select results suggest helps evaluate more efficiently it presents an aggregated view candidate’s contributions, drill down details about comparison via movable cards could be arranged match participants’ needs.