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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by shawabawa3 »

babyshake wrote: post #34
broth wrote: post #24

I felt like this blog post ended quite abruptly. I was expecting for the author to show how GPT-3 was able to formulate a response back to the recruiter not just parse out the name and company of the recruiter.

Can you prompt GPT-3 "as the person who received message {message}, respond to it." and it understands that it is addressing William from BillCheese (aka, "Hi William...")? Perhaps the best you may be able to do with the current model capabilities is something like "response to message {message} by thanking the sender and telling them you are not interested right now but will get in touch if that changes."

Yes you can, you should create an account and try it out. A fun example I just did

Respond to this email, pretend to be a pirate called Old Blue Bill who is very interesting finding out more about these job opportunities.

"Good Afternoon,

I have 4 brand new roles available, please see details below. I also have an Engineering Manager position becoming available in Leeds (tech is Java/Kotlin), so if you have Leadership/Management experience and want to help an exciting company build a new bank then get in touch as well (the company ae financially stable, part of a £1Bn organization and just received around £30M in funding).

If interested please send me your up-to-date CV and we can set up a call to discuss."

Good day to you, stranger. I be Old Blue Bill, the terror of the seven seas. I be interested in these job opportunities ye be havin'. I gots me a mighty fine CV what'll make ye sit up and take notice. Arr!

Ye best be gettin' in touch with me soon, lest I take me wrath out on yer crew. Avast!

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by soneca »

iacvlvs wrote: post #61
r3trohack3r wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really like this advice! Do you have a link to the article? Would like to learn what you mean by "well formulated."

https://index.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-...

I wonder if it being so long is part of the filtering process. Only good recruiters will read the whole thing and bother to reply.

I personally believe it is unnecessarily long, formal, and diplomatic. It does not fit who I am and, if I were to read it, I would have the impression of an annoying and insincere corporate speak.

I believe I can achieve all the goals of being polite, respectful, considerate, and filtering for serious offers with a much, much shorter and informal response.

Something like:

Hi X, thanks for the contact. Company Y sounds interesting and I do think I might be a good fit for the role. I am not actively looking for a new position now, but i’d like to know more about the job description and compensation details. Thanks!

This should all be sincere if course. If the company does not sound interesting (like all crypto for me), I only reply a respectful “no” ( ”Thank you for the contact, but I am not looking for a new job right now.” ). Similar when job is for roles that I have no experience whatsoever, which often happens. In this case I also mention that I am not a, e.g., Android engineer (I am a web frontend).

Also, if there is no company or role mentioned, I give the first reply, but obviously removing the acknowledgment that I like the company/role and ask for details about it too.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by orbital-decay »

bilinguliar wrote: post #94

Taking into account that some sort of automated tool also generates recruiter letters and follow-ups - we witnessed a fight of two computers without any value in it for anyone.

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by allisdust »

bilinguliar wrote: post #94

Taking into account that some sort of automated tool also generates recruiter letters and follow-ups - we witnessed a fight of two computers without any value in it for anyone.

Or rather we have witnessed two computers talking to each other and decided their bosses aren't a good fit at this time (saving the time for both sides while also not missing any potential matches).

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by ivanche »

coffee_beqn wrote: post #14
potatosalad1 wrote: post #3

Now have it automatically negotiate a salary range high enough for you to consider interviewing.

Make it do the interview loop for me and I’ll pay a few thousand for a license

Next step: your hologram to work instead of you :)

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by dsr_ »

ascari wrote: post #96

While it’s a nice concept I agree it’s probably not the best fit for the use case. I also don’t understand the point of recruitment spam. What’s the purpose of sending 5 follow up emails. I find it absolutely annoying and would never respond back to an unsolicited email. Surely had they enough applicants for an appealing job, they wouldn’t have chased that much.

To begin with, the average recruiter was hired in the last three months and will last three more months before looking for a new job. They have been equipped with a series of templates and told to customize them.

The goal of the recruiter is to make money by acquiring a candidate, presenting them to a company, and having the company hire them. Note that the recruiter does not actually work for the hiring company -- they have no relationship with them whatsoever, yet. The recruiter's company is paying a minimal salary with an additional fee based on the salary of the candidates who get hired through this process. A particularly scummy recruiting company pays no salary at all, and considers the recruiters to be independent contractors. The recruiter's company has someone in the back office who is manually or automatically scraping Indeed, Dice, Monster, whatever in order to get job listings.

At this point you can see that a recruiter is a speculative spammer.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by andai »

Does this violate OpenAI's terms of service? Or is it OK because you're the only user so it isn't a "production application"? They are quite clear that any AI produced text needs to be explicitly labeled so that nobody could mistake it for human written.

(I think this is hilarious, but just letting you know so you don't get banned or something.)

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by gpgn »

keriati1 wrote: post #66
jasonhansel wrote: post #9

Someday, the recruiters will also start using GPT-3, and all recruitment conversations will just be transmissions between different GPT-3 instances, creating a massive hive mind of GPT-3s that brings about the singularity.

Pretty sure this is happening already. I started to get some messages on linkedin that include some details from my descriptions, but it feels super unnatural, like a template was filled with some data mined content...

In some of the ones I get the filled data is all uppercase so they are very easy to spot.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by expjpi »

andai wrote: post #108

Does this violate OpenAI's terms of service? Or is it OK because you're the only user so it isn't a "production application"? They are quite clear that any AI produced text needs to be explicitly labeled so that nobody could mistake it for human written. (I think this is hilarious, but just letting you know so you don't get banned or something.)

It's not obvious to me that this qualifies as "AI-produced". The actual response is a form email, and GPT-3 is getting used as a, like, parser for the recruiter email.
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