This just devalues cover letters. As a hiring manager I am strongly motivated to avoid channels which would cause me to wade through a bunch of fake crap. If there turns out to be no way to filter out AI generated text, we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary whose job is just to verify that you are a human being and you have some idea what the job ad said.
Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
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#12I wonder what I would think of a candidate who submits a computer-generated text for me to read, especially when the input is not even human bullet points but just the job post and the resume.
We don't have any formal process for hiring (we're expect this is not going to go over well.
As an IT person, I do have to commend the automation, though. There are pros and cons to weigh as you use this.
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#14This just devalues cover letters. As a hiring manager I am strongly motivated to avoid channels which would cause me to wade through a bunch of fake crap. If there turns out to be no way to filter out AI generated text, we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary whose job is just to verify that you are a human being and you have some idea what the job ad said.
That sounds like an improvement
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#15i dont get these apps, are they just chatgpt + preprompting with "write a cover letter"? Cant this easily be done with chatgpt itself?
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#16I wonder what I would think of a candidate who submits a computer-generated text for me to read, especially when the input is not even human bullet points but just the job post and the resume. We don't have any formal process for hiring (we're expect this is not going to go over well. As an IT person, I do have to commend the automation, though. There are pros and cons to weigh as you use this.
If they built the tool, hire them immediately.
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#17I wonder what I would think of a candidate who submits a computer-generated text for me to read, especially when the input is not even human bullet points but just the job post and the resume. We don't have any formal process for hiring (we're expect this is not going to go over well. As an IT person, I do have to commend the automation, though. There are pros and cons to weigh as you use this.
If they built the tool, hire them immediately.
Ah yes, I wanted to add that but forgot. Agree on that one. If they can explain to me how it works, how it was built (and not just "I curl $aicorp"), then it's probably positive rather than negative. We do have to get to that stage, though.
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#18This just devalues cover letters. As a hiring manager I am strongly motivated to avoid channels which would cause me to wade through a bunch of fake crap. If there turns out to be no way to filter out AI generated text, we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary whose job is just to verify that you are a human being and you have some idea what the job ad said.
> This just devalues cover letters.
They already are very low signal.
> we will end up that you have to attend an in person interview at some intermediary
So like a recruiting agency that does pre-screening? That is a thing already.
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#19Bullshit like this is why hiring processes are so insane now.
I am really hoping LLMs will remove much of the cruft from our daily communication. If cover letters are not a human effort any more they can be left out. Recently I was involved in supporting my manager in hiring for a new Developer position and we barely even skimmed the letters. They are already basically useless
Skimming is being generous most places now. ATS is really the only thing that "reads" them.
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#20i dont get these apps, are they just chatgpt + preprompting with "write a cover letter"? Cant this easily be done with chatgpt itself?
That's exactly what this is, I've been using ChatGPT to rewrite my resumes and cover letters for months now.