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Basically: assholes ruin things for everyone.
I think you just wrote the epitaph for the human race.
Take this entire paragraph and read carefully, and it explains how to kill this trend: > “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would…
If you need a job in a tough job market you can't really afford to be picky about the opportunities. If I need a job I'm willing to put up with just about anything to get it, because the alternative is potential financial ruin for my family in a country with weak social safety nets. The last entry level job my company posted got over two thousand applicants in less than 24 hours before they paused submissions. I don'…
If your odds of getting hired after wasting all that time are 1000 to one, might be smarter to look for alternate pipelines with better odds where your time benefits you regardless of outcome.
> Candidates tell Fortune that AI interviewers make them feel unappreciated to the point where they’d rather skip out on potential job opportunities, reasoning the company’s culture can’t be great if human bosses won’t make the time to interview them. But HR experts argue the opposite; since AI interviewers can help hiring managers save time in first-round calls, the humans have more time to have more meaningful conv…
> But HR experts argue the opposite Once again proving that somehow HR has become captured by bug people
I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I realized that I had talked at a computer for ~45 minutes. And, yet again, I was going to be ghosted by the company (I was), and that I was never going to get those 45 minutes back. That was time I co…
How were you communicating with the AI? We should create a "service" where an AI will represent us in the interview process and then we can just have an AI talk to the AI. We'll do our best, but if our AI just straight up starts lying to make us look good, well, what can you do?
> Still, stretched-thin HR teams say it’s the only way to handle thousands of applicants. You're doing it wrong if you're considering "thousands" of applicants. First of all ask your current good employees if they can refer anyone. If you need to go to resumes, sort by qualifications. Screen out obvious robo-applications, you know them when you see them just like you know spam email from the subject line alone. Hint:…
Right now, every company thinks that because times are uncertain, they only want to hire the best of the best, so they can be sure of their choice. Of course, everyone else has the same idea and the "best of the best" already got hired somewhere better. I'm not really sure why employers are taking so long to realize this.
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You:Me Preacher:Choir I actually have much more negative thoughts than that, but I'm told we should assume they are stupid rather than malicious.
If you don't think HR is malicious, you should read Company by Max Barry.
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> You want to have an AI interview me? No. It can interview my AI agent if you want, but not me. Great points overall here. But I just want to pause a second and and react to the above portion : Wow. I really am living in the future.
And it is so much lamer than we thought it would be.
> “The truth is, if you want a job, you’re gonna go through this thing,” Adam Jackson, CEO and founder of Braintrust, a company that distributes AI interviewers, tells Fortune. “If there were a large portion of the job-seeking community that were wholesale rejecting this, our clients wouldn’t find the tool useful… This thing would be chronically underperforming for our clients. And we’re just not seeing that—we’re se…
Person selling a product informs you that the product they're selling is good despite counter claims.
> They're seeing the opposite because people are desperate.
I hope, wish, pray we get back to the 2021 market in a few years so we don't have to humor HR persons anymore. I was very polite and reasonable when I switched jobs in 2021 but when the cycle comes around I am going to string along HR folks and recruiters as a hobby. I will try to get them to cry on the phone.