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I automated my job application process

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Re: I automated my job application process

#11
This is some next level bs spam. I know job search in IT is difficult these days but this kind of automation will not make it better; if anything, the opposite.

The most recent place where I applied and my earlier workplace both asked for a video recording early during the recruitment process. I guess employers will ask for in person interviews next.

Re: I automated my job application process

#12
Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing.

The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues.

I get that the market is bad right now and there are lot of people looking for jobs but auto submissions and flooding job sites wont work. Not for the ones that matter anyway.

Re: I automated my job application process

#13

Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing. The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues. I get…

Were you able to find good candidates from your post eventually?

Re: I automated my job application process

#14

One of the major reasons why applying for jobs sucks so much is that companies are flooded with more garbage applications than they can process. So hurray for the tragedy of the commons, I guess. It was nice knowing everyone. On a personal level, I consider the practice espoused by this article of flooding the world with automated messages without care for how it impacts anyone else to be narcissistic and morally rep…

Exactly. It’s funny someone would be so self-unaware as to brag about doing this in a blog post

It doesn’t matter though. The way to get actual good jobs is to be poached. And to get poached, you need to build real projects of your own that get peoples’ attention. Resume spamming is for the plebs.

Re: I automated my job application process

#15

Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing. The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues. I get…

That's okay. You can just use a bunch of LLMs to filter through to the few resumes you would have gotten before people used LLMs to find jobs... ;-)

Re: I automated my job application process

#16

Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing. The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues. I get…

Were you able to find good candidates from your post eventually?

Not yet. It has been a week and I have 500+ resumes sitting in the inbox. Not fun.

Re: I automated my job application process

#17

Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing. The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues. I get…

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. You are the reason people go for these kinda solutions. Hiring process is complete bs.

Re: I automated my job application process

#18

Nice. But as a hiring manager, this is the last thing we want. Flooded with auto submitted Resumes. I posted a job recently and got 100+ resumes in 2 days and 99% were not even remotely close to being a good fit. I struggled to sort through so many Resumes to find someone worth interviewing. The problem is that with so much noise, good candidates may get ignored or rejected by mistake. And the cycle continues. I get…

Have you tried using AI to screen the AI generated applications?

Re: I automated my job application process

#20

It will be interesting to see a SaaS that applies to jobs come up. I wonder if the application process will switch up in the near future to people posting their profiles for then company recruiters/AI to reach out and contact since if they post a job they just get 10k automated applications.

A fun variant:

- scrape linkedin and apply to jobs based on the result

- take the responses with "positive sentiment" and then contact the linkedin person

Service is now connecting people with companies that already thought their generated CV was close enough to what they want. Call this a "recruitment agency".

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