So 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.
As long as the AI hires my wetware neural network for an acceptable salary, I’m game
Generate a Cover Letter by Pasting the Job Post and Your Resume
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#52Turns out to be pathetic
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#54Dear Hiring Manager, I am excited to apply for the OpenAI Research Residency program as a Research Resident. As a software engineer with experience in building scalable systems in the fintech, health, and adult entertainment industries, I believe I have the skills and expertise required to excel in this role. I am particularly drawn to the opportunity to work on real, cutting-edge AI problems and advance the research…
I don’t know if I dislike GPT for making inauthentic people seem slightly more convincing, or if I like it for confirming that we have always lived among people who are essentially performative NPCs.
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#55This 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.
I think ChatGPT is going to remove the value from a lot of roles and tasks.
If it can be done by ChatGPT .. there's no point in the ritual; we'll most likely end up scrapping it.
No cover letters. No marketing fluff. No library photography. Less hiring. Less jobs.
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#56This 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?
This is how I feel.
I am a pretty hard to read person. I don't excited about switching jobs even if its for more money. I generally have a monotone voice when interviewing.
Some time ago, after an interview I aced, the recruiter called me and asked "why I don't seem to be interested in the position". I was like what? Apparently, because I didn't sound excited about working for an insurance company they were on the fence. The manager I interviewed with at the end was obnoxious, saying things straight from a script. I don't think I can work with people who act like "excited puppies". I'm a damn adult just trying to program and learn new stuff, but mostly put money in my bank.
Maybe I would be excited about working for some space program......but even then there is always the day to day.
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#57So 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.
I just wrote about something similar:
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#58This should just be a feature of LinkedIn. They have all the info about the candidate, the job, the employer, and the domain. And it’s probably already structured nicely. When you click on a job, LinkedIn should just populate the draft cover letter for you from ChatGPT.
Hell, LinkedIn should be able to have a chatbot answer recruiter emails on my behalf with me out of the loop. When I’m looking for a job they have all the information needed to accurately answer solicitations from recruiters. Just do it for me and leave me out of it until an on-site is scheduled.
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#59In 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.
Please apply to this job post via our chatgRPC endpoint.
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#60So 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.
Has anyone hiring for a company with more than 10 employees in the 21st century even read a cover letter? And if they have, are they stupid enough to actually believe it? For most people looking for work, rent's due next month, and they are machine-gunning applications, they aren't actually deeply passionate about getting a job at .
Yes, I read cover letters.
If you think a successful cover letter talks about being deeply passionate or otherwise over-the-moon about the company, your understanding of what signal they give is misguided in my opinion. I look just for some indication that it’s a human who has even the smallest understanding of our company, and maybe had some connection from their history to our mission. That is still helpful, including for the new developer I just hired two weeks ago.
The cover letter and free-form two questions I ask are, somewhat surprisingly to me, one of the strongest signals in figuring out whether to talk to someone or not. Resumes can list lots of similar skills, but a plain English writing customized for my job application, even if it’s small, tells me oh so much about their priorities, their writing ability, and more.
And I fully understand they’re looking for a job anywhere to pay the bills. Even as a cofounder of a small company, that’s part of why I work, too :)