PointedResponse

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by PointedResponse 2y ago
The genie is already out of the bottle. Right now companies are already using AI to screen their applications which means that people need to apply to 10X more jobs than they used to. This gives employers an unfair advantage in the market i
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
Yeah it is basically just for jobs in the US right now. You technically can apply from elsewhere, but you should specify your location correctly and make sure to set the right answers for the vis/sponsorship questions when signing up.
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
Thanks for catching that, I need to clean up the skills for sure. I could definitely think about adding categories, like frontend, backend, mobile, crypto, etc. that you can enable/disable altogether. That's a good idea.
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
It's saves hours of work and a lot of stress. You can basically stop thinking about applying to jobs if you set the search filters up right, so I feel at least for me it would be worth the money. There's also just the unlimited su
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
Conveniently, I decided early on that I would rate limit applications based on the job board, so that any single user doesn't have too many applications sent to a single job board site like greenhouse or lever in one day. So for now, t
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
The way I see it, most companies already use modern ATS to stack rank every application based on their resume using AI and then just go down the list. If you aren't already using a system like this at your company then you're play
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
Well I just finished it yesterday and it usually takes at least a month to go from application to offer, so it would be quite impressive indeed if I already had gotten an offer with it today.
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
I'll be awake thinking about this blunder in bed tonight.
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by PointedResponse 2y ago
How does it work, anyway? Under the hood the infrastructure uses LLMs with very clever prompting and a ton of safeguards. It uses your uploaded resume and some info you provide at sign up (in addition to the job description) to intelligentl
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