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Serves them right. Employers have been using AI and algorithms to weed out resumes/applications for years. To the point that the only way to get seen by an actu

Serves them right. Employers have been using AI and algorithms to weed out resumes/applications for years. To the point that the only way to get seen by an actual human is the game the system.

bastawhiz 2y ago
Exactly, I came here looking for this comment. Many companies have been using AI tools for years to power recruiting. Now they're upset that candidates are using the same technology. The recruiters turned their profession into a tit for tat arms race.
ToucanLoucan 2y ago
Hard agree. It’s infuriating that automation is continually added to human centric processes that it is ill-suited and anti-social to be used in, very much including most LLM applications, always in the name of more bloody cost-cutting that almost never leads to lower prices for consumers, just more yachts for the executive class.
LikelyABurner 2y ago
The thing that especially infuriates me is recruiters in this article turning around and trying to throw LinkedIn under the bus. No one likes the nightmare dystopia of a platform that is LinkedIn. The only reason most people I know have LinkedIn accounts in the first place is because HR types have outsourced so much of their job to LinkedIn that it's viewed as professional suicide to not have a LinkedIn profile with 100s of contacts in this industry. Recruiters don't like the GenAI and Easy Apply features on LinkedIn, it makes their jobs more difficult? Then stop making LinkedIn a mandatory account for tech workers. You have NO ONE to blame but yourselves.
- Simulacra 2y ago
  It would be interesting if they just went back to paper resumes and applications. That takes effort, only a little bit, but it takes effort.
  - jfil 2y ago
    And for the in-demand FAANG jobs: we only accept applicationa written in blackletter on vellum
- surfingdino 2y ago
  What gets me is that they request a CV even though my whole work history is already on LI. My CV is just a reformatted LI profile. But then again, recruiters are mostly sociology, political science, or philosophy grads who chose an easy degree thinking they were clever and found themselves being used as a mop in the Victorian sweatshop that is the recruitment industry.
  - rad_gruchalski 2y ago
    They require your cv for at least two reasons: 1) to figure out how serious you are, or do you expect they send a screenshot of your LinkedIn profile to their client? if you want to talk to their client, do your homework, if you can’t be bothered, well, will you be bothered when you join? 2) due diligence-are you who you say you are? is your cv in line with your LinkedIn, or are you just one of those AI generated clowns?
- IshKebab 2y ago
  I like linkedin. It got me my current job. I get a constant stream of recruiters looking for people in my field; if I want a new job I'm pretty sure I can just reply to a few of them and not have to actually apply at all. Just don't read any of the nonsense that people post.
KallDrexx 2y ago
Two wrongs don't make a right. AI being weaponized on the application side hurts us all, and leads to an environment that's extremely difficult to get noticed in as a job seeker. Yes, networking helps but that's not always possible, especially if you are trying to change industries or have generally worked with smaller companies where your networking doesn't expand out much. It also leads to less diverse environments where hiring managers only look at resumes given by friends or friends of friends.

Serves them right. Employers have been using AI and algorithms to weed out resumes/applications for years. To the point that the only way to get seen by an actual human is the game the system.

bastawhiz 2y ago

Exactly, I came here looking for this comment. Many companies have been using AI tools for years to power recruiting. Now they're upset that candidates are using the same technology. The recruiters turned their profession into a tit for tat arms race.

ToucanLoucan 2y ago

Hard agree. It’s infuriating that automation is continually added to human centric processes that it is ill-suited and anti-social to be used in, very much including most LLM applications, always in the name of more bloody cost-cutting that almost never leads to lower prices for consumers, just more yachts for the executive class.

LikelyABurner 2y ago

The thing that especially infuriates me is recruiters in this article turning around and trying to throw LinkedIn under the bus. No one likes the nightmare dystopia of a platform that is LinkedIn. The only reason most people I know have LinkedIn accounts in the first place is because HR types have outsourced so much of their job to LinkedIn that it's viewed as professional suicide to not have a LinkedIn profile with 100s of contacts in this industry. Recruiters don't like the GenAI and Easy Apply features on LinkedIn, it makes their jobs more difficult? Then stop making LinkedIn a mandatory account for tech workers. You have NO ONE to blame but yourselves.

Simulacra 2y ago
It would be interesting if they just went back to paper resumes and applications. That takes effort, only a little bit, but it takes effort.
- jfil 2y ago
  And for the in-demand FAANG jobs: we only accept applicationa written in blackletter on vellum
surfingdino 2y ago
What gets me is that they request a CV even though my whole work history is already on LI. My CV is just a reformatted LI profile. But then again, recruiters are mostly sociology, political science, or philosophy grads who chose an easy degree thinking they were clever and found themselves being used as a mop in the Victorian sweatshop that is the recruitment industry.
- rad_gruchalski 2y ago
  They require your cv for at least two reasons: 1) to figure out how serious you are, or do you expect they send a screenshot of your LinkedIn profile to their client? if you want to talk to their client, do your homework, if you can’t be bothered, well, will you be bothered when you join? 2) due diligence-are you who you say you are? is your cv in line with your LinkedIn, or are you just one of those AI generated clowns?
IshKebab 2y ago
I like linkedin. It got me my current job. I get a constant stream of recruiters looking for people in my field; if I want a new job I'm pretty sure I can just reply to a few of them and not have to actually apply at all. Just don't read any of the nonsense that people post.

KallDrexx 2y ago

Two wrongs don't make a right. AI being weaponized on the application side hurts us all, and leads to an environment that's extremely difficult to get noticed in as a job seeker. Yes, networking helps but that's not always possible, especially if you are trying to change industries or have generally worked with smaller companies where your networking doesn't expand out much. It also leads to less diverse environments where hiring managers only look at resumes given by friends or friends of friends.