Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?

Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by bsima on Friday July 28, 2023 @10:18AM (#36907145)

> Now we're getting hundreds of resumes a week for each open position, and the bulk of each one of those resumes do not come close to even being in conversation range of the posted JD.

What percentage of these resumes do you think are generated by GPT?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by noodle on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:25AM (#36908247)

Honestly, I don't know. I don't see enough of the "not close, easy rejection" type resumes, I see things after they've been filtered. But I'll see if I can get an answer to that question.

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by troyvit on Friday July 28, 2023 @12:19PM (#36909176)

The last time I had resumes to look at it was a few years ago, pre-gpt. We had pretty a specific hard requirement (elixir experience), and easily 95% of the resumes had no mention of it. So I don't know if I'd blame artificial intelligence, more like natural stupidity.

[edit] And by stupidity I mean people who just spam every job they see trying to get a hit. Like what were you planning to do if you got the job?

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by camdenreslink on Friday July 28, 2023 @01:47PM (#36910510)

Learn Elixir? It's just a programming language...

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Re:Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck ... by troyvit on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:16PM (#36937023)

I don't pay people for that. Job description called for at least 3 years' experience, which I should've added to my post.

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