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Everyone? Applicants are using AI to mass apply for jobs. Not everyone deserves a response. Why not: Please only post jobs if you are committed to interviewing
by matt_heimer 2y ago
Everyone? Applicants are using AI to mass apply for jobs. Not everyone deserves a response.
Why not: Please only post jobs if you are committed to interviewing and filling the position in the next 3 months. Accounts posting the same job opening for 6 months may be banned.
In this market if it takes 6+ months to find someone there is a fundamental problem with the opening.
At the very least it should be: "Please only post a job in this thread if you are committed to responding to all qualified applicants."
- johnnyanmac 2y agoSince we're on HN, I think using LLMS instead of humans to talk is a bigger issue than whether an applicant is mass applying outside the site with LLMS. We should address that first and that will fix the issue anyway. >At the very least it should be: "Please only post a job in this thread if you are committed to responding to all qualified applicants." Too easy a loophole. I think we should just stick to the spirit of the rule and see if they make an honest gesture not make it literally 100% of applicants (ofc of they want a principal and a student in school applies they shouldn't expect a response).
- dang 2y agoYou are making good points but now I'm wondering if we should just drop the idea. Every applicant is going to classify themselves as "qualified"; and every applicant that a company doesn't respond to, they will classify as "unqualified"; so if we modify the rule in this way, we may as well have no rule at all. (Edit: I just noticed johnnyanmac already made this point in an earlier reply)