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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by piinecone »

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.

I used to do the same thing but I got tired of doing that (and they didn’t always respond with the details, but often with another request). Now I just send them to https://polyfill.work.

They have to enter pay, etc. and if it’s a fit for me I’ll hear about it.

(Disclaimer: I made polyfill and it’s a work in progress but I’m looking for feedback on the developer onboarding part so let me have it if it sucks!).

I don’t send them my polyfill profile page because then they’ll have my email and uuid and I want polyfill profiles to be pseudo anonymous.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by layer8 »

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.

That’s actually a good and safer automated use of GTP-3 though.

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Post by JasonFruit »

> This solution worked well for the handful of emails I tried it on. I’m planning to run this on a cron to save myself some time and automatically maintain recruiter relationships.

Maintain recruiter relationships?! You're sending a glorified autoreply that plugs in a couple values. That is not maintaining a relationship. Luckily, there's no relationship to maintain, because the recruiter probably just blasted out an automatically-generated message to a list of contacts in the first place.

This sort of thing makes me sick. It's an abominable distortion of human interaction, and it makes our society worse.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

ahmedbaracat wrote: post #50
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did the opposite, I just tell them to schedule on my calendar... I'll sit through you salespitch for $100/hr ( https://www.starblazer.pro/#/bk/80jKqZYdBdeBd2J3uTdKIoqVgpk2 ?)

Wondering if that landed you a few meetings?

A few, but honestly it's mostly gotten me removed from some recruiter lists.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by kordlessagain »

a1371 wrote: post #64
mbil wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried the five most recent messages I received and it worked as expected for all of them. I imagine that I'll encounter some that don't work, and at that point I'll try adding more examples to make the model more robust.

it's incredibly creative that you thought of this

You should see it writing solr queries.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by awillen »

JasonFruit wrote: post #113

> This solution worked well for the handful of emails I tried it on. I’m planning to run this on a cron to save myself some time and automatically maintain recruiter relationships. Maintain recruiter relationships?! You're sending a glorified autoreply that plugs in a couple values. That is not maintaining a relationship. Luckily, there's no relationship to maintain, because the recruiter probably just blasted out an…

Abominable seems like a strong word for a couple of automated emails. I'd hate for you to see what email marketing software looks like...

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by eternalban »

orbital-decay wrote: post #104
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?

Depends on who you ask. Newton would say, "yes". Goethe would say "what do you mean by sound? What if there were two people in different locations? Would they hear the 'same exact' sound?"

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Post by justusthane »

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/

> asking for information about the job description, salary, and position, if they were not included in the above email

Does this part actually work reliably? For example, if salary info is included in the initial message, will GPT-3 omit it from the response while still asking about job description and position?

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by stavros »

justusthane wrote: post #118
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/

> asking for information about the job description, salary, and position, if they were not included in the above email Does this part actually work reliably? For example, if salary info is included in the initial message, will GPT-3 omit it from the response while still asking about job description and position?

I don't know, I only tried it this once, but I'll try again and see.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Post by JasonFruit »

awillen wrote: post #116
JasonFruit wrote: post #113

> This solution worked well for the handful of emails I tried it on. I’m planning to run this on a cron to save myself some time and automatically maintain recruiter relationships. Maintain recruiter relationships?! You're sending a glorified autoreply that plugs in a couple values. That is not maintaining a relationship. Luckily, there's no relationship to maintain, because the recruiter probably just blasted out an…

Abominable seems like a strong word for a couple of automated emails. I'd hate for you to see what email marketing software looks like...

I promise you I could come up with something appropriate.
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