Using AI Hawk’s Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.
We’ve got AIs to go through applications that is submitted by AIs. Just what are we doing here?
The true purpose of technological civilization, as directed and controlled by capitalists, seems to be the creation of the infinite paper clip machine.
Except instead of paper clips, its AI having gibberish meeting with each other, AI applying to other AI for jobs, AI simulacra dating other AI simulacra.
It nets out to an unfathomable waste of resources, human potential, and the lethal degradation of our ecosphere.
First as tragedy, then as farce.
All the smart people already warned and suggested better paths and outcomes, but that would cut into next quarter profits so its a non starter.
Similar to how companies are reaching to create the death machine from the book “do not create the death machine”, companies are racing to create the “dead internet”, where even if humanity dies, there will still be internet traffic.
The amount of power the dead internet will use is staggering.
The companies struck first with AI resume filters, but that distinction won’t matter much.
Creating a barrier of entry to keep plebs away from employment.
Just maybe now that the tools are publicly available, companies will realize their current process will just get them inundated.
I mean… online job applications have been a shitshow for over a decade, with many of the same problems of online dating apps (from an average male perspective).
The jobs you are applying to already have 100 other applicants.
The job requirements are very, very often faaar beyond what is necessary to do the job.
The job descriptions are also often absurd, written by HR people who have little to no idea what they’re trying to describe, and usually your responsibilities will just expand ad hoc, at any time. Hell in most states you don’t even have to list an actual wage, just a range, which you will almost always be lowballed on.
The applications very rarely follow a common format where one can upload a resume and just submit it, no, there’s always some percentage of time consuming manual input required.
No response from employers is completely normal, and so is being strung along for weeks or months before they lose interest with no explanation why.
Oh and some of the job postings are already filled, might have an opening at a later undetermined date, but they don’t indicate that at all.
… These all have rather direct analogues to what an average guy’s experience of using a dating app is.
The primary difference is that employers have been using more rudimentary AIs / algorithms to analyze the submitted applications for around a decade as well.
I remember seeing in like 2018 or so that the average resume gets 2.7 seconds of viewing time by an HR person, and that’s after some kind of software screening.
This is basically just fighting bots with bots. Nothing is reasonable or sincere, hasn’t been for a long time.
This is just the next logical step in an escalating arms race.
Why not just do the scattershot approach when your chance of getting any one particular result is vanishingly small?
I wonder if AIs also look at a resume from a guy name LaQuan and immediately turns it down because “black name?”
I’m sure the embedded racism is deeeeep, yeah. All those “AI” hiring models are doing is pattern matching, based on whatever junk was fed into it.
So any discriminatory patterns are probably not only embedded, they’re impossible to remove without some hypothetically non-discriminatory training data. Not sure where they would even look for that.
Most assuredly so. Those AIs are trained on human input, which is practically guaranteed to contain some level of bias.
And in specialized fields, or really any career path, the way that you stand out from the crowd and actually have a chance at getting the job is to network and find the person to talk to that will give you a shoe-in.
So we’ve created this entire qualification & resume system, built on the idea of meritocracy. And it has gotten so ungainly and unusable that we have shortcutted the whole process and are back to “oh, I know a guy/gal.”
Wonderful.
Yep. Nepotism trumps everything, and I’ve been on both ends of it.
I’ve had a job, team lead wants an addition to that team, screens nearly 100 people over 6 weeks, she asks me if I can recommend anyone… I think about it for a bit and well I do know one person who might be interested? I text her (my friend) about it and …she’s hired in a week.
I’ve also been in unemployment hell after becoming disabled, spending literally a full 40 hours a week for a year, getting a grand total of 3 interviews, one of which landed me a job.
The system is completely broken and full of bullshit and liars.
What are you using for game dev?
Right now just brainstorming, toying around with concepts.
Too poor to live somewhere thats internet capable.
Cellphone hotspot maxes out at 5gb per month, pretty hard to do much actual work.
When I said poverty, I meant it.
But at the same time, I also meant it when I said haven’t been this happy in a very long time.
I’ve had quite a lot of idiot, backstabbing, gaslighting partners, friends and family, as well as ludicrously dysfunctional working environments.
Its very nice to just do basically nothing other than exist and not have people screaming at me and gaslighting me and threatening me all the time.
And in specialized fields, or really any career path, the way that you stand out from the crowd and actually have a chance at getting the job is to network and find the person to talk to that will give you a shoe-in.
Which is incredibly discriminatory against the neurodivergent, BTW.
I’m HR and I suppose this message. Only thing I would add is that its much worse than that–its not just specialized jobs. Even bad, low wage jobs desperate for labor either a) don’t have the HR budget to review and screen the volume of applicants correctly b) have given up on a) and have an AI screening system that sucks and still gives them too many candidates to review and screen with their budget. Hiring managers mostly have even less time than HR.
Blockchain resumes is the only way, but much like Esperanto has a critical mass of institutions and organizations that likely won’t be reached.
What does the article say? It’s blocked after the first paragraph or so.
Paywall removed: https://archive.ph/7ekvB
This is one use of AI I fully approve of, because hiring departments are already using their own absolutely terrible AI products to filter applicants. Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Even before this AI shit came along, HR departments were colluding with a grab bag of con artists to turn the hiring process into a nightmare hellscape. It’s only fitting that it finally consumes them too.
I am thinking about trying this out since I am starting a job search. Anyone here used AI Hawk? I work in Data Science and would love to remove the tedious cover letter and resume process.
