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When I graduated college, the job situation wasn't as hot. I would take a resume, custom tailor a cover letter, change out a few paragraphs in my resume to fit
by ransom1538 8y ago
When I graduated college, the job situation wasn't as hot.
I would take a resume, custom tailor a cover letter, change out a few paragraphs in my resume to fit the specific job title --- and then.. no reply -. So. I scripted it. I would scan craigslist, monster, indeed, etc for emails or company names. The script eventually evolved to guess company homepages and scan for emails on 'career' sections.
Based on the job titles it would automatically change out cover letters. It became smart enough to understand that a word doc or txt format resume was required. It could catch "PUT THIS IN THE SUBJECT" and created a queue for hand verification -- otherwise, it would send out the emails. Once they were sent out it would scan incoming emails to determine if there were any leads - and matched the thread together with a unique email footer.
Hilariously, it flipped job searching. I would get long ranting emails why I wasn't a qualified or the position required someone more 'senior' to build CRUD webpages. OH well, HR blew their time, not mine, ---> delete. When a interested company did call, I had a nice mysql database of all the posts that company made and was ready to return a call prepared.
I got a job quickly after this php script starting running.
- koboll 8y agoYou could definitely make money selling access to this.
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- hajrice 8y agoIt would probably never reach scale for obvious reasons, but someone should productize this. "I'll get you a 20% more high paying job for $1,000"
- siavosh 8y agoI review resumes periodically for my job and it certainly feels like someone(s) already have.
- gitgud 8y agoSo you can tell which applications were built by software? I was always hesitant to attempt automating job applications
- dcc 8y agoYes, you frequently can tell. There appears to be a number of people doing some form of automation with different degrees of success. Even though it's a clever use of software and when you're hiring for a software engineer it should be promising, it gets annoying and you tend to discard it. I wouldn't suggest attempting it unless you can do it extremely well if it's fully automated, or use it to help simplify the process, but still complete the last steps manually. We've had a tendency now to introduce a request for a simple bit of information in the job posting as a sort of captcha to filter out automated spamming of applications.
- snow_mac 8y agoCan I buy access to this?