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Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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post #7

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If you have "not interested in web3", then your profile comes up in keyword searches for web3.

It would naively seem to me that reading profiles is literally the bare minimum to do the job. If a recruiter can't do more than scrape LinkedIn for keyword matches and send spam, I can't think of a good reason why I should respect their time.

Having built tech recruiters, this is 95% of their prospecting process

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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post #37

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Thanks for the feedback. I just updated the article. Basically I plug those extracted values into a templated response.

Have you had a chance to experiment with whether GPT-3 prompts can be used to dynamically construct the response? For example, "if the messages describes a frontend role, say I am not interested, and if it is a backend role say I am interested."

I haven’t explored it any further yet, but that seems like a useful extension.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#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.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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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.

I was worried that that was the direction the article was going to take. My experience with GPT-3 is mostly from playing AI Dungeon, but it seems like it's very eager to go along with anything from the input. It's the ultimate "yes, and..." improv partner. I wouldn't be surprised if it just automatically agreed to every interview request.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

#45

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

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?)

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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post #46

I am curious, what is the success rate with this? Do you get a valid JSON every time? Does it contain the right info every time?

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.

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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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.

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

Re: Responding to recruiter emails with GPT-3

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

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?
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