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The form are important because 90% of the applicants for a job these days aren’t remotely qualified because people shotgun resumes at a hundred jobs at once without even reading the qualifications and all their resumes are formatted differently.

I don’t have the time to go through that, so yeah - I filter out people who don’t bother to fill in the fields because they probably didn’t even read what the job is.

The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.

I hear about all these people sending out hundreds of job applications in every direction with no response, and it makes sense. When you’re competing against a hundred people for a job, you won’t stand out with a half-ass application. Focus on doing fewer, higher-quality applications.

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LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
LLMs have made that kind of thing moot for LLM users. Honest ones, not so much.

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You learn to spot LLM cover letters pretty quickly. And anybody who slips by won’t survive an interview.
  
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  - BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
    
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    chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I’d love to see someone try and perform in an interview with ChatGPT or Claude without me noticing from the other side of the table.
    
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    LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The paid models are quite good. They do have a shitton of training data and the models ate HUGE.
    
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BussyGyatt@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

The fields get the resume to my desk. The resume and cover letter get you an interview, and the interview gets the job offer.

why would anyone bother to write something you tacitly admit you arent going to read

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- chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  The fields let me filter out whether someone meets the bare minimum at a glance in a standard format. If someone gets through that, I’ll read the resume, CV, and cover letter they prepared. If they get through that, they get an interview. If they get through that I’ll check references and make an offer.
  
  Larger organizations take it a step further and have a computer auto-filter candidates based on the fields.
  
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SarahValentine@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Oh hey, here’s one now!

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