Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

Post by Qub3d » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 4:43 PM UTC

drcongo wrote: post #82

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.

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Post by joshspankit » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

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?

Post by andai » Fri, Sep 02, 2022, 6:39 PM UTC

expjpi wrote: post #110

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.

Post by BigRedDog1669 » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 1:25 AM UTC

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…

Post by Justsignedup » Sat, Sep 03, 2022, 4:18 AM UTC

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.