• percent@infosec.pub
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    25 minutes ago

    Remember to use candidate name and company name variables.

    Well it looks like this reminder worked 😆

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    5 hours ago

    Why not just say “we are sorry but we will not be moving forward with your application at this time” like a normal person?

    Unless…

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      25 minutes ago

      Why not ghost the candidate whoch seems to be the most normal response these days for some reason

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    7 hours ago

    Wouldn’t it have been easier to just get AI to wrote the message and then just use that same canned response going forward instead of using AI to generate it each time? What a waste of resources

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      5 hours ago

      If it’s a canned response, why not just do it yourself? It’d take like 5 minutes. Oh, those skills are rotting because AI? Yeah.

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        39 minutes ago

        Also people don’t know how to be social anymore so they find it easier to tell a robot to write a warm rejection email rather than writing one themselves.

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    13 hours ago

    He spent more time writing the prompt than he would with just writing an email. I think you dodged a bullet by not getting hired there

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 hours ago

      I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could’ve been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn’t up the metrics of AI usage in your department!

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    8 hours ago

    This has increased after AI. Heck rejections come within a few seconds of applying. Once I got (what I presume an internal-only info) something akin to “this opening is just for compliance reasons. We are actually not hiring for this position”. This placeholder was sent with rejection email (again presuming its for internal info only)

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      8 hours ago

      I would actually enjoy reading that. We all know it happens, and happens a lot. Would be nice to hear about it so we know we didnt fail, it just wasnt possible to succeed.

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    8 hours ago

    Also when you click apply and within seconds get a rejection email and this is the first sentence:

    “Thank you for applying, after careful consideration we decided not to move forward…”

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    13 hours ago

    As a cost-cutting measure, rejected applicants will be given a prompt and expected to generate their own rejection message. {{Announcement_closing}}.

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    13 hours ago

    Reply: You really missed out not offering me a job, as I would have never made such a big mistake. But seeing how unprofessional your company is, I am no longer interested.

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    8 hours ago

    What on earth about this message requires AI?

    This is a simple string interpolation that anyone who has been coding for five minutes can write a script for.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 hours ago

      It doesn’t even need to be personal. Just send them a notification notice. Nothing about this has to be personalized, it’s already going to their email. Anything more and it’s just bs. Even the notification of rejection email is already kinda bs because when you never hear back, you know you’ve been rejected, and the email itself is a functional courtesy. It could literally just be:

      Email:

      From: company@company.org

      To: you

      Subject: jobname application rejection date

      Body: none