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[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If it truly helps you, I think that might be enough for me. I say truly because you need to use an AI with responsibility to not ruin yourself. Like, don't let it think for you. Don't trust everything it says.

I use it a lot when applying for jobs, something I've struggled with on and off for 12 years. I suck and writing the cover letter and CV. It takes me 2-3 days to update a cover letter for a job because it takes so much energy. With AI that is down to 1-2 days.

It's also great for explaning things in other words of if you're trying to look up something that's hard to search for, I don't have any examples tho.

I used to use it to help me formulate scentences since english isn't my first language. Now I instead use Kagi Translate.

[–] Qzr@programming.dev 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

re: applying for jobs

Not criticizing your use to write your CV specifically.

But in general, I wonder where this arms race is going? Companies using AI to pre-filter applications, because they get too many. Applicants then using AI to write their CVs, because they have to apply so many times, because they automatically get rejected.

Basically in the end the entire process will be automated, and there won't be any human interaction anymore... just LLMs generating and choosing CVs. Maybe I'm too pessimistic, but that's the direction we're headed in imo.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

We’re already there. You already read about people applying to hundreds of companies to get an offer

Even worse than the rejections are the fake jobs - typically a recruiter trying to build up a file of applicants by scamming you into applying for something that doesn’t exist.

The only part left to automate is the actual fuiding and applying. I’m lucky not having to apply for a bunch of years so maybe it has changed, but there never seemed to be a good way to automate finding the hundreds of openings and sending the application. Job application sites are determined to be middlemen but don’t actually seem to make the process more efficient

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

It does feel like that sometimes! It's very sad that recruiting has lost the human touch. They seem to be blinded by years of experiences and checking boxes when they should recruit by personality, because a person can always learn. But you can't really do much about a shitty personality, exception if you see that spark underneath it all. Some people just needs a real chance and to be believed in.

A lot of recruiters don't even want the cover letter anymore, some have a few questions and some only go by the CV.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

As soon as the HR process started to use algorithms to filter out applications, it was open game to find any ways and tools to fuck their process over. Just my opinion.

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah I use it to break up my ADHD monosentence paragraphs. I'll tell it to avoid changing my wording (it can add definitions if it thinks the word is super niche or archaic) but mostly break things up into more readable sentences and group / reorder sentences as needed for better conceptual flow. It's actually a pretty good low level editor.

[–] CoffeeTails@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

That's a great use!