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I don't feel too bad for the companies here. They started the arms race by posting fake jobs and giving the runaround to good candidates. From a power dynamic,

I don't feel too bad for the companies here. They started the arms race by posting fake jobs and giving the runaround to good candidates. From a power dynamic, people NEED a job to have food and shelter. Established companies don't "need" you (specifically). Then you have the recruiters who flat-out lie about job details and send you to interviews for jobs that pay nothing or require a skill set that is the exact opposite of everything in your resume. So, you have the company/recruiter with all the power dictating who is allowed to eat. On the other side, there are people seeking employment who get constantly rejected or jerked around for no fault of their own. In this environment, trust in companies is gone. There is no reason or incentive to "play nice", I need to eat. I WILL do whatever is required to achieve that goal. This guy should offer AI-job-applying as a service; I'd pay for it.

koliber 2y ago
Some companies behave poorly, and we have every right to call them out. When individual behave poorly, we should also call them out. > In this environment, trust in companies is gone. There are also companies who do good and have very decent recruitment processes. > This guy should offer AI-job-applying as a service; I'd pay for it. If people start spamming their resumes more and more, more companies will use automation more and more. Guess who wins this arms race. I occasionally do small-time ultra-specialized technical recruiting for my clients. I routinely see the same unqualified people blasting their resumes after getting a reject. I can literally tell who they are from the thumbnail previous of their resume. I don't have much automation. People blasting resumes for jobs they have no chance of landing causes real qualified people to get less attention. Imagine now you are qualified for a particular job, but some exhausted recruiter skips over your resume because they had to wade through so much chaff. You can read about one such experience in a sister comment to your post.

koliber 2y ago

Some companies behave poorly, and we have every right to call them out. When individual behave poorly, we should also call them out. > In this environment, trust in companies is gone. There are also companies who do good and have very decent recruitment processes. > This guy should offer AI-job-applying as a service; I'd pay for it. If people start spamming their resumes more and more, more companies will use automation more and more. Guess who wins this arms race. I occasionally do small-time ultra-specialized technical recruiting for my clients. I routinely see the same unqualified people blasting their resumes after getting a reject. I can literally tell who they are from the thumbnail previous of their resume. I don't have much automation. People blasting resumes for jobs they have no chance of landing causes real qualified people to get less attention. Imagine now you are qualified for a particular job, but some exhausted recruiter skips over your resume because they had to wade through so much chaff. You can read about one such experience in a sister comment to your post.