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How to Get Hired in 2025

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You use AI to turn a few bullet points into a fleshed out CV. The recruiter uses AI to summarize your CV into a few bullet points.

The thing is: You are not sure about this - lately I had an interesting experience: I was contacted by hiring firm and asked for my CV. We set up a phone call later on, she said: Since she was too lazy for the english version, she put it into ChatGPT - then we went through it and I was shocked: The system missdeclared lot of positions, esp. the one with some special legal status et.

After that, maybe this is my problem so far after 200+ applications: How often does the other side do this? Maybe this is very common, and since the auto translation misses completely the correct context, that maybe the reason why I had no luck so far and receive _only_ rejections?

very likely employer just wanted to see how gullible you are

This. I remember in 2012 TechCrunch disrupt hackathon overnight making “Birthdays” to satirize how Facebook systematically helped society cheapen the word “friend” and “like”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om4_F0VFIdI

It has only been downhill from here. Now my AI wishes happy birthday to your AI which thanks it. Thoughtfulness at scale!

So we're supposed to hand out poorly done work on purpose because the AI manages to do it perfectly? That's just stupid.

It's the companies that should change their interview process.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi

Its like the extra value people associate with handmade goods over mass produced. Now were just getting to experience it in the interview process.

These articles are the equivalent of your coworker sending you an AI generated pull request without himself reviewing it first.

Did the author of this article review it? Is their entire position that to differentiate yourself you have to do lessor work because AI is perfect? Are they suggesting that AI / LLMs are better than humans?

> because the AI manages to do it perfectly?

Who told you that? Not the article for sure.

[Notwithstanding Poe's Law] I chuckled at the satire, but you could just as easily use AI to make the code suck more to pass the filters.

I don't know the solution to this; you have a similar problem in education where students generate their homework with AI, teachers grade it with AI, and you have to question whether the institution makes sense anymore.

I've had people accuse me of using AI for code that I created before 2019, and they just doubled down when I pointed it out on public version control. The industry is full of toxic people and developers who just put others down. I hope there's a way out because I'm not going to stop coding even if I tried. It might be years before these people get promoted until they don't review code and all the AI hate caused by fear among the general public is gone. This business cycle is going to be very miserable.

they just want your submission - you are supposed to call your code as AI generated cause that gives them an edge in goofy global AI race

Wouldn't it be easier to feed the famous essay into the LLM?

https://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html

Well, I was expecting another type of content.

I’m looking for a job (software engineer) since two months ago and I haven’t landed a single interview. 0. Null. Nothing. I don’t know if the problem is my age, or the fact that people are not reading cv’s anymore because an AI recruitment software is analyzing the applications, or if there aren’t enough jobs out there.

Back in the days, finding a new job was always super easy for me. Not just as a programmer. Before that I was working on another industry and even without formal qualifications, I was always hired because I had all of the skills needed. The difference is that during that time (2012-2018) interviews were face to face, on site, so it was easy to check if a candidate was a fit. And I was younger. I guess that was a thing that helped.

When I switched to engineering, same thing. I always had a job at good companies, with recognized clients, or building widely used software products.

This is the first time I’m struggling with being unemployed. It’s a huge change. I even miss the small talk with a recruiter before the interview questions. I was not fired, I quit. I thought it was going to be easy to find something (as always!) but I was wrong.

Oops I mixed a lot of things. But I am sooo frustrated rn.

By all accounts the job market is wildly different than it was a few years ago. I’m curious how much AI is being used to screen. I see some guys on LinkedIn with prompt injections in their profiles, I wonder if that would work.

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