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How does that have anything to do with the OP and their company? A bad behavior in the industry doesn't justify taking the revenge on one small company. If anything, it creates a negative feedback loop.

> Please don't do this. I spend time going through the resume, the various links in it, and then responding to everyone who applied. But this time, with so much AI-generated verbiage I simply don't want to.

Congratulations, now there's one more company "that uses automated emails for rejection". And rightly so, if you ask me.

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with OP or their employer.

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Because if someone’s experience is that their cover letter never gets read, and they finally get the chance to automate writing a cover letter, they’re just going to follow the pattern they’ve always experienced.

I also love that the way things have worked for decades is applicants have to do everything by hand, but employers can automate as much as they want. Now suddenly applicants can automate just the writing of the cover letter and suddenly automation is bad and it’s all about being personal and what happened to the human touch lmao. This is just over a cover letter, by the way.

Also this is likely not applicants that are filling out one job application. We’re talking applicants that have probably spent weeks trying to apply for jobs. Spare then the 5 minutes of writing a cover letter for a job they’re probably not going to get for the 50th or whatever time.

yep, you hit it on. I was going to reply the same thing to OP. when companies use AI to determine which resumes/candidates are good, no one can complain, but when candidates use AI to generate cover letters and all that garbage (for the 300 companies they have to apply to) they are literally hitler

This, exactly this! I've been looking for a job for a while now, and of course I automated it... genuinely asking, who reads the 100s of cover letters anyway?

So the era’s gone then. Nobody raises their hat seeing another gentleman on the street anymore. Now that the power of automation is in both hands, everyone has to adapt. Next month we’ll see a medium article about using AI roleplaying chat-instruct mode to bypass the filters and generate what OP finds acceptable or human.

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