I got laid off at the beginning of March, and the job hunt is fucking brutal. I’m a software engineer with 20+ years of experience, and it’s just all AI now. Most companies just never respond, and if I’m lucky, I get to be interviewed by an AI chat bot, and then immediately rejected. I’m thinking about just going into the trades at this point.
If an a.i. recruiter wants a video, I’ll give 'em a fucking video…
Can we also ban uploading your resume, then having to manually input all the stuff… that’s in your resume?
I’ve noticed a lot of places stopped taking resume and cover letters. Rather they get you to fill a form that asked all the same questions. I assume it’s so it’s easier to parse though at the employers end. But it extends the application process. If you want the job you would need to spend a few hours looking and answering the questions. It gives no room for nuance or creativity.
Indeed recently made it so you can no longer store your resume to attach easily to applications; it was too useful. Now they auto -move you into a “were processing this with AI” workflow so that you won’t need your resume anymore (of course after you’ve fixed all their shit AI parsing of your resume) you’ll just need Indeed.
We definitely need a new horse in the race other than indeed and LinkedIn.
I hate it so much. I’m looking for a job currently and it seems like everything is a scam to collect your personal data, wants you to video chat with AI to use that as moar data, and wants you to spend 3 hours looking at pictures with no context at all and choosing one of two responses. I have no idea what data that last one could even give.
Picture shows 4 people all doing different things with seemingly different emotions. You get to pick “This is me” or “This is not me.”
Are AI making the tests too? Because that shit makes no sense. “Yes, I am a small collective of different humans who do different things simultaneously while experiencing human emotions.”
FedEx forces you to use their AI chatbot to apply lmao.
Just click any of their listings and it redirects to a slop site.
FedEx is on the fucking list as far as I’m concerned.
Whatever agency handles their hiring emailed me REPEATEDLY over several weeks to talk about how they were urgently hiring.
I did all the things including their AI interview and was told I was a great candidate and was going to be hired. They sent me to a form to give them my availability.
I told them 24/7, I just needed a job. I got an immediate rejection because my availability didn’t match their needs.
The next week they laid off a bunch of people at my local facility.
even some big box stores are using ai chatbot to hire people, and its almost never good.
“Let our AI agent scan your résumé!”
No.
“Talk to our AI chatbot to complete your application!”
No.
“Tell us how you have used AI to enhance your workflow in the last X years!”
No.
“The responsibilities of this position include mandatory engagement with our dynamic and exciting ✨ AI agent ✨, and your usage will be obsessively monitored by your manager and used as a performance indicator instead of your actual work output!”
No.
“But if you don’t embrace the AI Revolution ✨ you’ll be left behind!”
Good. Me bang steel on anvil. Unga fuckin’ bunga.
Let’s see your dumbass “AI” actually produce something tangible. Pollution doesn’t count.
So, I’m going to starve if I ever want an actual career instead of a low-paying retail job because I refuse to be subjected to this.
I like to use AI to help me with my macros and supplements and stat maxing my warframes. Thats about it.
Copo speak has gotten so ridiculous that I have the absolutely no idea what you’re trying to say.
There’s a game called War frame, maybe they’re talking about setting up their controls?
Like how you used to be able to get macros for fishing in runescape.
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The job market is SO FUCKED.
The irony is, they won’t be receiving applications from the best talent in their talent wells. Anyone that knows half their worth will simply move on to the next advertised role which will obviously be from a competitor.
I did it once, and then didn’t hear back, so never again. I may have missed it, but it wasn’t clear on Indeed that would be required to apply until after I already engaged, which is frustrating.
At some point, i wouldn’t apply to anything that made me copy paste my resume into a different form
Same.
The absolute worst case for AI that I’ve come across is the attempt to use AI to ask job candidates questions to extract more information from them before the company has to lift a finger. It’s breaking the contract that there is a respectful connection between the company and the one who is applying. Effectively, the contract is broken when the company expects the applicant to apply with never receiving any real valuable interaction, with the ability to simply click a button to reject their time investment. This is something that needs to be regulated and banned immediately. It is the worst professional use case for AI that I’ve experienced thus far.
Indeed got me nowhere in job interviews and blanket emailed me with unnavigable generic ghost link messages every day, maybe even twice a day, AND pushes you to sign up with your main email.
Most helpful to least helpful for getting responses has been:
- Uni’s catered job board (i think they use a 3rd service provider of jobs from the local area)
- linkedIn or Hiring cafe (tied)
- imagine like 5 things between the above and below, for scale.
- Indeed
- Companies websites directly (indeed often asks you to apply there)
edit: I actually hadn’t used hiring cafe so much until tonight, i went and made a bunch of quickfire applications on it just now! It’s super good for easily applying to places
Gotta be honest my friend, this feels like ad copy injected into Lemmy
hiring cafe is janky, its buggy when you are trying to choose locations.
I have only come across this nonsense a couple of times in my job search. I refused each time.
Refuse to comply
I would seriously spend a few days making an AI version of myself and just send it.
want to automate your process? great! I’ll automate my own and we can never speak.
“Best friend I ever had. We still never talk sometimes”
Yeah the job post worl and trying to apply for things has gotten more and more insufferable.
