I can tell you, as a hiring manager I never once looked at a cover letter. Let me see what your resume tells about you.
As a manager that has to do dozens of performance reviews, stop using AI to write your self eval. You used to give me a bulleted list that was quick and human readable. Im gonna start putting character limits on them because all AI is doing is wasting my time
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It could be argued that getting a job because your resume isn’t terrible is a benefit?
Just get an AI to summarise it for you. Circle of life.
Cover letters are one of the few things I’ve found AI is decent at producing. I give it my resume, the job description, and tell it to write of a cover letter based on those. The employer will most likely skim it or not read it at all, so it doesn’t need to be super detailed. Of course, make sure to double-check it for hallucinations.
Of course, make sure to double-check it for hallucinations.
I’ve been mucking about with a local instance of llama
1st weekend, i got it ruining. i pointed it at the oxygen not included wiki, and asked it a few questions. A couple of weeks later, I pointed it at my linked in prifile, which needed updated. I told it my new job title and to write a new summary
About half way down, it had
<job title> | Oxygen not included aficionado
🤣
Drag tried that and the AI told the company to look at drag’s github account.
Drag’s github account is crap, drag didn’t tell it to do that.
Nah. You don’t need a cover letter.
in my experience it literally doesn’t matter whether you include one or not
It didnt matter when hunans read applications, now, its an effort filter and an auto-reject if you dont make the computer happy.
I have a few saved cover letters that cover certain role types.
I either copy and paste that in or attach them.
Regardless, getting nowhere with the job search. The job market is cooked.
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and this just popped up in my feed.
You got to network. I say that as a deep introvert but I just entered the job market and reached out to my network one on one for recommendations and job postings.
I hate that I have to do that but it’s the best way to get a job.
I’ve been putting out 20-50 applications a week since September. So far I get a handful of rejections every day and I’ve gotten a grand total of 3 first round interviews
I went all out applying in about August last year and I am at about 550+ applications.
I’ve probably put in about 30+ today alone.
I’ve had about 6 interviews and only 2 of them were from applications I made, the rest were organised by recruiters that contacted me.
Spoke to an old colleague of mine that did a similar job to me, he got the axe from our company after I left and it took him about 300 applications to get 3 interviews and then finally a job.
Unfortunately for me, I took a role in a niche area because I needed a visa at the time and moved onto another role afterwards but I have too little experience in that area to land another role in it.
So, my main focus is too long ago to land a role, my latest experience is too little to land a role, and my main experience is too niche for me to find any roles.
Speaking to a few recruiters and they all say the same thing, 300+ applications on every role they advertise.
Wait, you’re talking about remote jobs, right? Where do you even find 550 companies that seek someone in your role?
Hey ChatGPT …
Literally one of the best uses for LLMs. It’s also useful for rewriting your resume to make it seem more impressive.
Yeah and with corporations doing AI interviews were just pushing AI onto AI. Dystopia is around the corner.
