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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by voidr on Saturday December 28, 2024 @12:10PM (#42532467)
Hiring agents have been spamming potential job seekers for years with garbage and then came up with the abomination known as ATS, which makes it very difficult to argue that job seekers should not use automation.

Either the market needs to come up with a good solution that encourages good behavior from both sides or the governments can step in and start regulating.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by robocat on Saturday December 28, 2024 @03:38PM (#42534451)
> both sides or the governments can step in and start regulating

How could regulations help?

Both sides already have good incentives to match positions to candidates; yet we are collectively failing.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by Plasmoid on Saturday December 28, 2024 @04:19PM (#42534844)
Only sort of. Lots of employees are only looking for any job and the adverse selection nature of hiring makes the typical job seeker pool look worse than average.

On the company side, only some people in the organization are strongly aligned with hiring. The vast majority are indifferent or even somewhat negative as new hires mean more work.

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Re:I Automated My Job Application Process by Root_Denied on Sunday December 29, 2024 @03:30AM (#42538543)
More than that, the incentives are inversely aligned - companies want to hire a "good match" for as little as possible, and applicants want to be hired at the maximum possible rate.
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