Now I want to know the company.
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Wouldn't it have been easier to just get AI to wrote the message and then just use that same canned response going forward instead of using AI to generate it each time? What a waste of resources
If it’s a canned response, why not just do it yourself? It’d take like 5 minutes. Oh, those skills are rotting because AI? Yeah.
because they probably fired the person who does it and filled the position with AI
Also people don't know how to be social anymore so they find it easier to tell a robot to write a warm rejection email rather than writing one themselves.
I see this a lot. I got brought into a project where the entire CI/CD was a prompt.
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Shouldn't hide the company's name.
Might go to doxing the poster if it's a local company.
Remember to use candidate name and company name variables.
Well it looks like this reminder worked 😆
He spent more time writing the prompt than he would with just writing an email. I think you dodged a bullet by not getting hired there
Also email templates are a solved problem, there is like no reason to use AI for this
I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could've been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn't up the metrics of AI usage in your department!
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Why not just say "we are sorry but we will not be moving forward with your application at this time" like a normal person?
Unless....
Why not ghost the candidate which seems to be the most normal response these days for some reason
This is not a meme. This is just sad.
Reminds me of how "The Man from Mars" (by Stanisław Lem) finally understand what humor was about. Look at most jokes ignoring the humor and you find be an endless stream of tragedies.
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Employers "mimimi, don't write your cover letter with AI!!!"
Reply: You really missed out not offering me a job, as I would have never made such a big mistake. But seeing how unprofessional your company is, I am no longer interested.
As a cost-cutting measure, rejected applicants will be given a prompt and expected to generate their own rejection message. {{Announcement_closing}}.
22 downvotes from that company......
Downvotes could be about censoring the company name instead of exposing them.
As someone else in the comments here pointed out, if it's a regional/local franchise or a small business then they could reveal their own location by revealing the company's name.
Where meme?
This place has devolved into just images some may find mildly entertaining.
If only there was a community for that...
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And this, friends, is why you use a human in the loop if you're using AI
The whole point is they don't care enough about you, the candiate, to put a human in the loop.
Just don't use ai
Also when you click apply and within seconds get a rejection email and this is the first sentence:
"Thank you for applying, after careful consideration we decided not to move forward..."
Nah just shame em now… don’t let them hide behind this fallacy.
Still better than ghosting I usually get.
I don’t know, I think I’d rather be ghosted
Ghosts are way more eco-friendly than AI, and way less tied up in billionaire wealth.
Yeah, the state of things is ugly.
HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload, making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up - at least there was a conscious decision here to reply to an applicant, many just ghost them which is just bad form.
HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up
That goes both ways. Employers have been auto rejecting applicants for years, so applicants have shifted to automating applications.
Why should someone looking for a job take the time to craft an application, when it gets rejected without a person ever actually looking at it.
Last time I went job hunting (2yrs ago), I got a response from less than 1% of the jobs I applied to.
It sure does. I for my part always used the official EU tool for creating my CV and applications, which made applying somewhere a pretty fast act - if i looked for the next job, i just uploaded the file with my old CV there and could just add what was new. It's pretty useful even today i think! https://europass.europa.eu/en/create-europass-cv
My experience was not as abysmal as yours, but it also is much farther in the past - last time i was job hunting was around 2016. That 1% response rate is awful… only way to mentally survive that is by not expecting to hear anything back.
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This has increased after AI. Heck rejections come within a few seconds of applying. Once I got (what I presume an internal-only info) something akin to "this opening is just for compliance reasons. We are actually not hiring for this position". This placeholder was sent with rejection email (again presuming its for internal info only)
I would actually enjoy reading that. We all know it happens, and happens a lot. Would be nice to hear about it so we know we didnt fail, it just wasnt possible to succeed.
Can't that be reported to whatever government agency that made the requirement?
What on earth about this message requires AI?
This is a simple string interpolation that anyone who has been coding for five minutes can write a script for.
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