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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (8 children)

As someone looking for a job, I fucking hate this. It is so annoying to hear HR people commenting that you should make sure to put a lot of effort into the jobs you are applying to and write a new cover letter tailored to each job. Bullshit. Maybe if you were not getting 300-500 applicants for your posting for a mid level position, I might consider it. There is zero possibility they are looking at more than a dozen out of the 100 that are qualified.

This is, of course, industry dependent. My wife was able to land a fairly decent job in her industry despite not meeting every qualification because there are simply not a lot of people in it. I'm in tech in Seattle where I have to contend with HR getting flooded with applicants which means they start looking for unicorns that somehow have experience in the combination of the dozen systems the job uses along with a decade of experience in them. I also have to contend with job postings getting canceled after applying, once while I was on the phone with the fucking recruiter.

My advice if you are in the tech industry is to work with recruiters. Eventually you will find one who is not shitty at their jobs.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

12ft.io/https://www.businessinsider.com/job-applications-hiring-ai-bots-spam-resume-cover-letter-2024-3

Does this work ?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 months ago (7 children)

The conclusion was to rely on nepotism.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (4 children)

This one trick can make you a business success: Be born into wealth.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Nepotism and other connections.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

So it's pretty bad and barely works. And yet, I'm considering it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Game the system buddy.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Reading the article, this went exactly as I imagined it would. Equal parts hilarious and horrifying!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I hope this brings down the whole system as AI HR evaluates AI resumes.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 months ago

Humans letting the bots fight it out isn’t much less arbitrary than what we have today.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If I ever have to job seek again, I'm probably gonna just hand write my resume on a crumpled piece of notebook paper to make it stand out from the AI generated drivel.

I'm only sort of not joking.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 months ago (5 children)

I'm going to do the opposite. I'm going to get the AI to generate my resume and cover letter. If an AI is going to sort out which resumes are 'good' ones, I figure the ones written by an AI are going to be preferred.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

You'd run into a problem pretty quick once you get to the interview stage and they ask about your experience setting up cloud servers on the ISS or serving as an enforcer for the Dali Lama.

I had AI take a stab at revising my resume and it invented all kinds of things that sounded good but I could never back up or bullshit my way through.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried using ChatGPT to distill my LinkedIn profile down to a summary paragraph for a marketing resume (what gets included with a RFQ response when a design or engineering form is pursuing a project) and everything it spat out was worse than what I had already written and wasn't happy with. Ultimately I lifted a phrase or two from ChatGPT's output, but it didn't do much to save me time or improve the quality of my copy.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not saying I wouldn't proofread it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

*Salvador Dalai

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Then train an AI on those and do it again. To distill it to its absolute pure AIssense.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That logic is sound, and I certainly can't fault it, but personally, I refuse to use the problem to solve / deal with the problem. Call me stubborn (everyone else does lol), but I will not buy a solution from the same industry that created the problem. At most, I'll let the "AI" fill out the unemployment forms for me lol.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

Just feed the job posting straight into the resume generating AI. It's bound to be a good match.

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