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Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
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#42This is so funny, I was just doing this with ChatGPT to apply for jobs. If you make me fill out a bullshit form where I fake being passionate about your company, I’m going to get a chatbot to write it for me. End of story. I just need a job, why do you care if I’m passionate about building CRUD apps for you?
What would be an example of a non-bullshit form?
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#43This 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
cover letters are already dead a waste of time
For technical hires I'd be looking at their interests i.e. github likes on followed projects, created works, etc.
This makes for good conversation in interviews are gets to the point of seeing if their a good fit.
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#44So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.
Might as well have AI apply for and do these jobs to complete the circle.
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#45In 5 years time everyone is just going to be hurling pages and pages of ai generated babble at each other. Either party not bothering to read any of it.
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#46I 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 actually proofread or edit it, how are you going to know? How is it any worse than some job coach formulaically writing it based on the job description and resume? Cover letters are ignored all the time, and generally just serve to add as friction to reduce candidates.
> If they actually proofread or edit it, how are you going to know?
Then it's not just autogenerated: apparently it's what they actually mean to say because they've read it (also: equal time spent compared to me) and still sent it. The problem is that the receiving party cannot know whether that's the case upon receipt if the "this was automatically generated" alert triggers.
> How is it any worse than some job coach formulaically writing it based on the job description and resume?
Someone else doing your applications for you would send a similar message I think, but then you can't just send out 100 in an automated fashion and waste a ton of time (unless you're rich I guess, but then you'd be better off with index investments). I do find it hard to say for sure how I will feel in what-if situations without having been in them.
> Cover letters are ignored all the time, and generally just serve to add as friction to reduce candidates.
Not my experience, but as I wrote in another subthread: the application process may be different in NL/DE versus whereever OP lives, or for my line of work compared to theirs. I wouldn't submit a plain CV without writing a few sentences on why I'm applying regardless of whether that's explicitly stated as required by the receiving company.
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#471. Alice turns a concise summary into corporate bullshit using AI and sends it to Bob. 2. Bob uses AI to convert Alice's corporate bullshit into concise summary.
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Re: Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
#48So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.
Until both the recruiter and software engineer become obsolete.
Re: Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
#49So AI resumes and AI cover letters are now being auto-submitted to AI generated automated job postings then parsed by hiring AI. What an absolute circus this is becoming.
This was already the grift.. ATS system doing keyword match building short lists from scanning resumes.
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#50This is endgame for the current hiring process circus.
It'll be back to "who you know, who recommends you, and who you trust."