I was reviewing a few tools recently, including one called TalentAgent from TalentGenius. They’re leveraging AI/ML to provide more efficient job matches for enterprise tech professionals.
If you were to build something similar from scratch, but with Gemini API, how would you go about doing so? And what type of surrounding tech stack would you want to have?
Can I make a hot take here, and suggest that I wouldn’t use Gemini (or any LLM here) at all? 
I’m only saying this because a lot of the issues around hiring right now is almost completely centered around human problems.
Maybe I’m just too cynical when it comes to the state of jobs and job hunting, but I feel like I’ve dealt with hundreds of different job hunting / job matching tools, some that make you pay, some that don’t. In the end, I got so tired and frustrated by all of it that’s when I made my big moves to just be a developer and go build.
The reason I say this, is because if I were to answer honestly:
The way I would go about it would be to look at the pain points we have, and innovate ways to solve those problems. Because in truth, many job hunters are fatigued. They don’t know where to go, everything looks the same, all these tools and apps use similar formats, and hiring folks don’t know where to look for the talent they want nor know how to ask for the talent they want.
The more you dig into it too, the more wild the ecosystem gets. Companies have been known to bloat job search sites to make it appear that they’re doing well and hiring a bunch of positions, when in truth they’re just ghost positions that were never truly open positions to begin with.
Even well before LLMs, people have increasingly had to build their resumes around what AI algorithms want just to get their resume to appear in job apps. And if you don’t know which or what kind of AI is handling the processing, and how to bork its analysis of your resume in your favor, well, " 
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You can always copypaste a job matching tool and stick an LLM in there (and hey, great learning experience!). That’ll get you something, but it won’t solve any problems, and wouldn’t be my personal approach, because the issues to me have nothing to do with any of that.
enterprise tech professionals don’t need help. Everywhere you look for a job, those are the only professionals people want to hire. If you don’t have a big tech company name on your resume, don’t even bother applying to anything.
That, to me, is the problem that should be the focus. If I were to build an any kind of job matching tool, I would start with a way to get people’s foot in the door, and get hiring managers to understand that the things they’re asking for do not physically exist.