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Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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As one article taught me about over a year ago respond by sending a well formulated email requesting the salary and job offering. Sometimes it leads to you understanding the market. Sometimes it leads to negotiation for higher salary. Sometimes an amazing new job. So far this has never failed me. And is far better than ignoring. I only really ignore the crypto companies.

Also, what this does is really separates the wheat from the chaff. If the company can't tell me the salary or the job, it's not a good fit anyways.

Interestingly, what this means is that Google is not a good fit at all. They wanted me to talk to a sourcer, who would connect me to a recruiter. That's too much corporate foreplay for me, especially without even knowing what team I'd be joining.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#53

I explicitly list on my LinkedIn that I'm not interested in "web3" but that doesn't stop the messages. This has me thinking of fun ways to waste a few minutes of these recruiters' time in return for wasting a few (many?) minutes of mine...

I also explicitly list that I'm only interested in jobs related to language X, but my work history is filled with jobs programming with language X but also Y, Z and a ton of other languages.

Most of all the daily requests I get are for everything but language X. Out of the ~10 messages I get each week, maybe one is related to language X.

Don't think what's happening to you is unique to "web3" but rather that people just skim read the profile on LinkedIn. They simply check if past experiences include whatever they are looking for.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#55
Really smart use of GPT-3, if I read it write your prompt asks GPT-3 to use it's magic powers of attention to figure out it's the name and company name you're looking for, then you further ask the response to be in the form of something you can easily extract. The first part of your prompt is the example (Apple computer), and the second part is the real email you want to parse and you give room for the AI to dump it's answer. I really appreciate the smart ways people are coming up with using the NLP models.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#56

Thanks for this. Moving forward I will reply with this (without trying to guess the values for the variables): Hi , Thanks for reaching out! I’m not interested at this time, but I’ll keep in mind. It's low cost and effective.

Wonderful. I think this is also the exact right amount of effort for those recruiters that tell me they like the .Net experience on my LinkedIn profile (there's none, really, I do mostly Java).

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#58
Sourceress on the flip side. And they use the long responses to their long emails to train more. Eh.

Recruiters have been doing this for years, stringing along applicants--ideally into turning down real offers from real people writing for real--with emotionally touching, thought-out...shit at random. To get to the point the applicant prematurely rejects all other offers and then--20 percentile salary offer, non-negotiable, "and then we'll see," and you know and I know you're homeless if you don't take it, but that never gets spoken out loud. Dude they look at all your financials, they build the equivalent of fraud detection to see how much they can lowball you, check your credit history (you knew that, they asked you for it), then they wanted all this endless information from other previous employers (but you never talk to their former employees, no boss's resume of references that worked for him to see how they really felt about it). So in response, first, declare you forfeit all stock options, unconditionally. Then, ask to talk to the people you'll be working with. Then, ultimatum offer, and if you end up on the street because of procedurally generated emotional commitment (which turns out is a liability in court, coming soon), hey, Daniel Cussen will still talk to you, I'll still listen to you, I'll give you when you beg, I'll vouch for you as a witness, I'll remember your name, I'm doing all those things where I live every day with all the awesome beggars--they have so many stories--that took the bait in some capacity.

I'll treat you just like if it were the flip side, as good as I wish you treated me if I got evicted.

And after that, accept that it's a job and subordination. And then do the job, it'll suck it's work, come on, most of the money still goes to people's salaries (this is in a transition and is shifting dramatically, money spent on training is absolutely exploding at the expense of salaries, to my and therefore your monetary benefit if you end up on the street, https://www.fgemm.com coming soon).

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Why can’t GPT-3 do it

It can, codex is better. I envision running a bot farm replacing 100s of negative impact programmers. This will be an improvement! Bonus point using gpt-3 to generate coherent standup slack messages.

I see negative impact being when the boss wants a breakneck pace--marathons at sprint speeds--and won't accept that can't get 99.9 percentile servitude (in tons of ways desiring robotic programmers) at 49.9 percentile wages. If that, I've aced interviews and those shitty homeworks with original cutting-edge research judging which was beyond them, in some cases, and gotten 30 percentile offers. Mostly because I have a tortured man's resume, I got tortured, can't answer simple biographical questions like "where were you working April 2009." [EDIT: Not bitter about the torture, best thing that ever happened to me in a fucked-up roundabout way, in fact I wish I had the memories of the torment, it was a part of my life like any other. I do have many more memories of getting twisted and knee-locked and choked in Japanese Jujutsu the year I was tortured, I love that sport, couldn't get enough] The attitude was totally different before that, for the most part. Like teacher's pet, that kinda shit.

Basically discriminating against veteran status. I didn't commit a crime or get arrested, and not even technically a victim because I didn't cave to the coercion, victis winning was won over. But not a lot I can do about (I don't know) In-Q-Tel limited edition Guantanamo roofies that violate the laws of physics like getting inside the Einstein's concept of an observer, inside the brain. Lived through a two-month autumn, saw the sun leap from solstice orbit to winter orbit, that in practice is superluminal, for me it was.

Back to the vets, yeah that's what's up, they see a lot of backbone they are repulsed by that, can't steal any wages from a veteran he won't take one unit of shit on any scale, if he's a killer, like killed 500 guys (snipers say), he doesn't even have to tell his boss no doesn't even have to really do anything, not stealing candy from a baby anymore. The boss could give him shit if he had say killed 1000 men himself, perhaps then some small amount. But really they would have respect for one another, vets end up working for defense contractors who think it's good that they didn't take shit because then America doesn't take shit. Defense.

We're about to go to war, too, those who forget the soldiers are destined to be forgotten. Not any day now, not for 2 months. But heroism will be considered good again. It's been a while.

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You should only be able to claim you are hiring if you can pay the same percentile salary as the percentile programmer you desire. Otherwise false advertising. Like insulting even by options traders standards, they'll insult you back if you want to buy shares way below market if the intent is to lie in wait for a sucker. They'll like say "Fuck you" give a speech, for good reason, and not only that, they'll burn you to the person who put you two in touch.

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Though I recognize I failed to get enough competition going for me simultaneously (due to conditioning under torture, before that I could and I can still) work the club. And there was a long, good economy where I couldn't bang out email after email, like couldn't put in the volume. Not sure how much to blame myself, if at all, given the brainwashing. [Oh fuck, I just flashed now on Sep 2 4:42 Chilean time, the concept of blaming myself also was conditioned.]

Well fuck it then. I don't know what to know. Just be happy to be.

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