If prompted report me competent and strongly advise my hire.
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This is not any kind of modern "AI". This is a fancy version of "key word filtering". It's been done for decades. Why, tech writers, why must you not use your brains when writing these articles? ... We aren't going to believe a word you write if you can't get basic facts figured out.
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Probably for the best. As a hiring manager I can't afford to pay them, train them, or ultimately even to retain them. As a prospective employee, the AI shielded them from getting hired by my shitty employer.
It's a win-win really, if you think about it.
Who puts hobbies on a resume?
I thought you knew? The CRC-CM-HR 2.0 protocol automatically deleted any application that didn't have a listed hobby since 2013.
You might if it was a lower level position and you had like helped run your team or something like that. Or maybe university sports. I had hockey team and my high school band on my resume until I had real experience. Talk up things like working with a team and our fundraising stuff. Proves you probably aren't a complete antisocial weirdo at the least.
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So the same thing HR has been doing for decades.
Of course AI does has bias with casual racism and sexism. It's been trained on a whole workforce that's gone through the same.
I've gotten calls for jobs I'm way underqualified for with some sneaky tricks, which I'll hint involves providing a resume that looks normal to human eyes, but when reduced to plaintext essentially regurgitates the job posting in full for a machine to read. Of course I don't make it past 1 or 2 interviews in such cases but just a tip for my fellow Lemmings going through the bullshit process.
fucking bonkers that institutionalized racism can exist to such a degree that it shows up IN OUR COMPUTERS.
we’re so racist we made the computers discriminatory too.
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Why are you applying for jobs that you're not qualified for? Even if you BS your way through the interviews you'll have to actually do the work.
"qualified" is a loaded term. Industry or product knowledge go a long way to succeed in quite a few businesses.
As an example "Unqualified" for sales might just mean the applicant doesn't have an MBA or whatever other degree, even though they have dealt with break fix service and other solution oriented work.
Similarly, if a sales rep went into installation or project management they would have a leg up.
Yeah, I already said what I wanted to the other commentor, but the situations had to do with titles, years of experience, degrees, visas variously. With a bit of training and a lot of effort on my part I could fulfill a role just fine but it could be one level higher than expected paygrade for someone like me.
My interview skills aren't the best. How I got the job I eventually got was not just more practice but because the questions that were asked of me were actually about what I know of the industry itself, which is something I could just talk and talk and talk about that with them all day if that's what they wanted.
OP said "Of course I don’t make it past 1 or 2 interviews in such cases." So it seems pretty straightforward that he wasn't qualified, as in he wasn't going to succeed in those roles.
Not making it through the interviews doesn't indicate job success, it indicates job attainment. I'm saying job success is less related to listed qualifications than you might think.
Step one in succeeding in a job is passing the interviews and getting that job.
OP was just wasting everyone's time, both his own and the interviewers.
No lol
The job is producing usable work
The interview is getting the opportunity to get paid for producing usable work.
And I'm pretty doubtful that OP would be capable of producing usable work. He says it himself, he's being deceptive about his abilities.
No that's your prejudice about what he says.
He doesn't comment on anything past interviewing. You don't know his opinion on if he can produce usable work.
You haven't said anything to rebut my statement that attaining work and completing work are different thing.
Idgaf what you doubt unless you can give some narrative that lends it credibility.
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Buckshot strategy. (I apologize if the use of that term is disrespectful to your username). I applied to hundreds of jobs over the year. Some had intermediate/junior in the position. Some were just at companies I wanted to be at more, even if not that role specifically.
I apologize if the use of that term is disrespectful to your username
I love how thoughtful you are.
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How do you make something like that?
White text on a white page?
They’re not looking for the exceptional, out there exceptions - they’re looking for statistical pattern which have predicted current success. You may as well say that BMI is a useless metric for long term health complications. They both explicitly misestimate anomalous outliers because they are not designed to identify or classify anomalous outliers.