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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by brtkdotse »

iliekcomputers wrote: post #51
Justsignedup wrote: post #43

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.

> corporate foreplay

Hello, new vocabulary entry!

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by palata »

> Assuming I get four such emails per week and that it takes two minutes to read and respond to each one, automating this would save me about seven hours of administrative work per year.

Am I the only one thinking that it's obviously not how it works? Not even considering the time it took implementing that.

I mean it's a fun project, but I don't see the need to justify it with "it will make me more productive".

Fun is reason enough.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by nicbou »

I rarely get recruiter emails anymore, but SEO outreach emails are exactly the same.

I have a Gmail filter for them, and if something slips through, I block the sender. It takes a second and it ends the problem for good.

I would suggest doing the same with recruiters. Bot messages don't deserve human courtesy.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by nicbou »

Retr0id wrote: post #7
bastawhiz wrote: post #5

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...

If you have "not interested in web3", then your profile comes up in keyword searches for web3.

I had a long discussion about with a recruiter, since my title is "Not looking for work" and my bio a longer version of "don't contact me". I still get contacted here and there, and I'm very rude when it happens.

It's apparently my fault if their scripts only see "looking for work" and contact me. If I didn't want to be contacted by recruiters, I shouldn't say that I'm not looking for work. He said that he couldn't know that I didn't want to be contacted because he doesn't have time to read profiles.

That was his defence to "this is why people don't like recruiters". Every additional message made me hate recruiters more.

Others have justified it as "maybe your very explicit request not to be contacted is outdated, and you want to be contacted". Nope. Still self-employed.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by nicbou »

daniel-cussen wrote: post #68

I recently turned all the predictive email, the "Nice to see you too! // Yeah it was fun. // See you!" robot shit gmail proposes. I don't want those proposals. The bias they introduce into my human (when it's a human) interaction is impossible to undo, I turned all all that shit off, if I want to write "Nice to see you! Yeah it was good. // See you!" I didn't even read off the screen what I wrote the first time aroun…

That's a very good point.

I keep it on because it corrects more subtle mistakes in languages I haven't fully mastered.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by nicbou »

jenaimarre wrote: post #54

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.

I love this. It's delightfully passive aggressive.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by daniel-cussen »

nicbou wrote: post #75
daniel-cussen wrote: post #68

I recently turned all the predictive email, the "Nice to see you too! // Yeah it was fun. // See you!" robot shit gmail proposes. I don't want those proposals. The bias they introduce into my human (when it's a human) interaction is impossible to undo, I turned all all that shit off, if I want to write "Nice to see you! Yeah it was good. // See you!" I didn't even read off the screen what I wrote the first time aroun…

That's a very good point. I keep it on because it corrects more subtle mistakes in languages I haven't fully mastered.

Yes--yes--that's a good use for it.

But always know they are training wheels, in your dominant language (same idea as dominant hand), you must use no training wheels. Learn the language any way you can, take classes (for sure in person) but at least be native in one language, to the point nobody thinks you're an outsider.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by stavros »

I was curious how GPT-3 would fare with a more elaborate response, so I pasted a random recruiter email and asked it to reply with more information, if the information wasn't in the email.

I am quite astonished by its performance, and this is coming from the guy who made an entirely AI-generated podcast (https://deepdreams.stavros.io)

https://www.pastery.net/zdxyvy/

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