I'm applying to jobs, and the amount of AI assessments, rounds, AI interviewers, questionnaires, is nuts.
One of these emails for example,
It's rough.
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Works both ways too. The number of AI generated resumes I've gone through, the incomprehensible business speak..
I sat in on a couple interviews. Blew my mind how many candidates were clearly reading from an AI. They all gave almost the exact same, very AI-sounding answers to the skill based questions then just slammed into a wall when we asked them questions that are more opinion based.
Not all of them of course, and we wound up hiring the person who sounded the most like an actual human being having a conversation with us out of the lot. (Of course, he matched the skills we needed to so that wasn't the only factor.)
Maybe don't demand a 1,000 word essay for a kitchenhand.
Just a thought.
"We've decided to hire chatgpt since that is who wrote all of the applications."
I guess you were hiring. If that's the case, would you prefer a manually written resume that is not matched to the listed position and skills (because applicants now have to send so many resumes that they don't have any more time to match them)?
No no. I want the applicant to be human. Don't bullshit. No buzzwords. Just say I can do this, I want to do that, I like turtles. Be yourself and don't fill the resume with fake ass shit, it's so obvious and depressing
The bullshit isnt for you, its for the AI filter that handles intake before you read a single application. (And if your not using AI to filter, your getting spammed by AI applications because everyone else is playing that game) Applicants are trying to beat the machine, and when the requirements get stricter the applicants just use more AI to send out more applications. Its a vicious cycle that will only end when hiring managers filter with something that a machine can not do.
Dont even get started on the personal data collection of the job sites. Its the most soul crushing thing to be looking for a job right now, anything to make you stand out of a crowd is ignored, volume of applications and adherance to posted requirments are the only way to get a fleeting interaction with a human.
I feel like the solution either needs to go back to in person and paper ads or a personal website acts as your resume, anything other than what we have right now.
Or none at all.
The advice is not helping either, since you're told to both make your resume and cover letter stand out, but also to make it generic so the automated system doesn't parse it wrong and disregard it.
So many interviews devolve into:
"Why do you want to work for this company?"
Which is code for
"Just how desperate for this job are you?"
My experience with this is receiving emails with "we will not proceed with your application" and absolutely no indication what or why, for positions that I'm uniquely qualified for.
I'm still looking, don't use Assumed Intelligence, and want to work, but it's not going well.
I suspect that your needs for human written applications is being thwarted by bots filtering your applicants before you even see them.
Most job listing now are just data collection with no actual job behind them.
Problem with that is most jobs are using an AI ingestion and rating system. So if I were a job applicant who doesn’t like AI and prefers to hand write resumes but I need a job to feed my family, I’m going to just blast out the AI resumes anyway because it just has the highest chance of working.
When I was job seeking I had two versions of my resume. Things where I was pretty sure it'd be ingested by an AI, I used that resume. Sometimes a rare listing asked for a direct email and I used the more personal resume for that one.
Then it didn't matter because a recruiting agency scooped me up for something I didn't even apply for.
However I will say definitely be the most 'you' that you can be while still being, yanno, work appropriate about it, that you can be. Good soft skills make such a huge impression.
The problem is 99% of hiring is looking for specific keywords and phrases like "increased revenue". Since they always do that applicants fall into the same patterns, like an evolutionary arms race.
Hiring manager here… yes. Give me a hand created resume, that shows what you did. I can extrapolate skills without it needing to match every bullet point word for word. Bonus is that you don’t need to butcher your resume, just put your best foot forward.