Using AI Hawk’s Auto Jobs Applier bot, I applied for 17 jobs in an hour on LinkedIn.
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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.
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 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 named LaQuan and immediately turns it down because “black name?”
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.
