Applying for a job has always been a frustrating task, and employers getting deluged with a huge number of online applications is making the process more painful than ever.
Enter software engineer Julian Joseph, who as Wired reports attempted to brute force his way to gainful employment by making very cynical use of AI.
Of course, you could also view LazyApply as a horrifying sign of things to come: of AI tools that flood would-be employers with overwhelming quantities of low-quality applications, drowning out the suckers who do them carefully by hand.
At the same, the tool highlights how tedious the process of applying for jobs has become, often requiring non-standardized forms that force applications to fill out the same information over and over.
Worse yet, employers are increasingly relying on automated tools themselves to wade through a huge number of applicants, making the process even more opaque.
At the end of the day, recruiters agree that an AI-assisted shotgun approach is far from ideal, especially compared to the number one way to find a job: through referrals.
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Applying for a job has always been a frustrating task, and employers getting deluged with a huge number of online applications is making the process more painful than ever.
Enter software engineer Julian Joseph, who as Wired reports attempted to brute force his way to gainful employment by making very cynical use of AI.
Of course, you could also view LazyApply as a horrifying sign of things to come: of AI tools that flood would-be employers with overwhelming quantities of low-quality applications, drowning out the suckers who do them carefully by hand.
At the same, the tool highlights how tedious the process of applying for jobs has become, often requiring non-standardized forms that force applications to fill out the same information over and over.
Worse yet, employers are increasingly relying on automated tools themselves to wade through a huge number of applicants, making the process even more opaque.
At the end of the day, recruiters agree that an AI-assisted shotgun approach is far from ideal, especially compared to the number one way to find a job: through referrals.
The original article contains 330 words, the summary contains 176 words. Saved 47%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!