The irony is, they won't be receiving applications from the best talent in their talent wells. Anyone that knows half their worth will simply move on to the next advertised role which will obviously be from a competitor.

"Let our AI agent scan your résumé!"

No.

"Talk to our AI chatbot to complete your application!"

No.

"Tell us how you have used AI to enhance your workflow in the last X years!"

No.

"The responsibilities of this position include mandatory engagement with our dynamic and exciting ✨ AI agent ✨, and your usage will be obsessively monitored by your manager and used as a performance indicator instead of your actual work output!"

No.

"But if you don't embrace the AI Revolution ✨ you'll be left behind!"

Good. Me bang steel on anvil. Unga fuckin' bunga.

Let's see your dumbass "AI" actually produce something tangible. Pollution doesn't count.

The absolute worst case for AI that I've come across is the attempt to use AI to ask job candidates questions to extract more information from them before the company has to lift a finger. It's breaking the contract that there is a respectful connection between the company and the one who is applying. Effectively, the contract is broken when the company expects the applicant to apply with never receiving any real valuable interaction, with the ability to simply click a button to reject their time investment. This is something that needs to be regulated and banned immediately. It is the worst professional use case for AI that I've experienced thus far.

I have only come across this nonsense a couple of times in my job search. I refused each time.

FedEx forces you to use their AI chatbot to apply lmao.

Just click any of their listings and it redirects to a slop site.

I hate it so much. I'm looking for a job currently and it seems like everything is a scam to collect your personal data, wants you to video chat with AI to use that as moar data, and wants you to spend 3 hours looking at pictures with no context at all and choosing one of two responses. I have no idea what data that last one could even give.

Picture shows 4 people all doing different things with seemingly different emotions. You get to pick "This is me" or "This is not me."

Are AI making the tests too? Because that shit makes no sense. "Yes, I am a small collective of different humans who do different things simultaneously while experiencing human emotions."

The job market is SO FUCKED.

I would seriously spend a few days making an AI version of myself and just send it.

want to automate your process? great! I'll automate my own and we can never speak.

Refuse to comply

Yeah the job post worl and trying to apply for things has gotten more and more insufferable.

The fuck is this?

Indeed recently made it so you can no longer store your resume to attach easily to applications; it was too useful. Now they auto -move you into a "were processing this with AI" workflow so that you won't need your resume anymore (of course after you've fixed all their shit AI parsing of your resume) you'll just need Indeed.

We definitely need a new horse in the race other than indeed and LinkedIn.

I'm sure it could at least be exploited / messed with.

Indeed got me nowhere in job interviews and blanket emailed me with unnavigable generic ghost link messages every day, maybe even twice a day, AND pushes you to sign up with your main email.

Most helpful to least helpful for getting responses has been:

• Uni's catered job board (i think they use a 3rd service provider of jobs from the local area)
• linkedIn or Hiring cafe (tied)
• imagine like 5 things between the above and below, for scale.
• Indeed
• Companies websites directly (indeed often asks you to apply there)

edit: I actually hadn't used hiring cafe so much until tonight, i went and made a bunch of quickfire applications on it just now! It's super good for easily applying to places