It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover Letter, So Nevermind

Re:It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover ... by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @07:35PM (#38199324)

In 2023 you might as well let ChatGPT do it in 30 seconds and call it a day. The recipient is probably using ML to process your application, you might as well do the same to them, bring the scales more to parity.

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Re:It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover ... by ryandrake on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:21AM (#38201791)

I'd love it if ChatGPT could simply look at my LinkedIn profile, scrape and navigate the company's byzantine application web portal, filling out all the text fields, generate whatever prose that fit the company's expectations/vibe, and hit submit for me. Scale that across 1,000 companies, and I could spam a reasonably good application across the entire industry in a morning. I'd pay $200 a shot for this if it could be shown to be effective at producing job offers. Go make it happen, founders.

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Re:It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover ... by gpderetta on Thursday November 09, 2023 @02:59AM (#38202293)

Next step is to just send it to work to do your job!

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Re:It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover ... by jbaber on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:15AM (#38204029)

You could pay a human to use ChatGPT like this for you to 100 jobs.

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Re:It's the Job of My Dreams, but I'd Have to Write a Cover ... by sjducb on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:47PM (#38209123)

I tried this and I’d usually didn’t do a good job. This surprised me.

I think it’s because each point on the cv conveys a lot of information and you need logic to put it together.

It would get experience from different jobs mixed up and write sentences that were obviously factually wrong

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