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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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Post by drcongo »

hcazz wrote: post #2

I'm sure some folks will see this as dishonest or unethical, but it feels more like the natural evolution of getting spammed by recruiters. If recruiters are going to endlessly spam me with their templates and automation, it only seems fair that my response is also templates and automation.

Sir, may I interested you in my automated template spam reply system for dealing with automated template spam recruiters? https://github.com/drcongo/spammy-recruiters

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by EvanKnowles »

stavros wrote: post #80

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/

Unrelated, your Stable Diffusion image compression article was amazing, thanks for that.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by hackernewds »

woutr_be wrote: post #65

My response to recruiters (especially on LinkedIn) is always the same; “Please send over all relevant details for the role you had in mind (JD, company and salary)”. This filters out about 90% of them, and especially those who’re just fishing for clients.

Fishing for what sort of clients?

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by janekm »

o_m wrote: post #78

I don't get why you'll need AI for this. Couldn't you get the same result by using regex on the email from the sender?

that's the point of the article... it's hard to write a regex that works on arbitrary emails from recruiters, but GPT is quite good at extracting information from arbitrary emails.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by sirsinsalot »

hackernewds wrote: post #84
woutr_be wrote: post #65

My response to recruiters (especially on LinkedIn) is always the same; “Please send over all relevant details for the role you had in mind (JD, company and salary)”. This filters out about 90% of them, and especially those who’re just fishing for clients.

Fishing for what sort of clients?

They mean fishing for CVs.

Many recruiters invent roles so that they can build a database of CVs.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by sirsinsalot »

hcazz wrote: post #2

I'm sure some folks will see this as dishonest or unethical, but it feels more like the natural evolution of getting spammed by recruiters. If recruiters are going to endlessly spam me with their templates and automation, it only seems fair that my response is also templates and automation.

Seeing as recruiters operate without ethics, this seems fair.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by wildrhythms »

sirsinsalot wrote: post #86
hackernewds wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fishing for what sort of clients?

They mean fishing for CVs. Many recruiters invent roles so that they can build a database of CVs.

...or they have a 1+ year long 'open position' so they always have an infinite pool of applicants.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by obert »

andy_ppp wrote: post #63
CrociDB wrote: post #62

I like the plot twist where the GPT-3 use is not to generate the answer, but to query data from the email.

I am amazed it can return structured information like this; what happens if the recruiter forgets their name?

You can provide more examples, such as one without sender name, and ask to include an error code in the json
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