> This has always been a problem: Candidate applies with an amazing resume but then flails when you ask them questions or “can’t remember”.

Yeah, but it's now 1000x worse. Before you needed actual skill (or luck) to create a good looking CV, especially for niche positions.

Now you take their job description, the company's "About us" webpage, your old CV and have LLMs generate a CV with pretty solid grammar and most of the verbiage they expect.

In the past the average unqualified person wouldn't even know the right words for a specific niche domain, let alone how to use them.

Oh, and single LLMs are kind of inherently multilingual, this makes it even worse, because you can have people that barely understand the target language generate a reasonable CV in that language.

The CV quality floor has been raised but the candidate floor has fallen through the pits of hell.

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NooneAtAll3 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> Before you needed actual skill (or luck) to create a good looking CV, especially for niche positions.

so useless skill that says nothing about your actual fit for the job was changed for automatic half-skill that still says nothing about your actual fit for the job

oh no, where are my tears?

	▲	oblio 11 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's astonishing how many people working in tech don't realize the impact of automation in this regard. This basically kills any "cold job application". Now it's all back to references and nepotism. I've gotten almost all my past jobs by applying to a job I liked, someone figuring out my CV was decent and then passing interviews. Now the same people filtering CVs have to wade through so much crap that it's almost impossible to even pass that stage. > oh no, where are my tears? Very likely, waiting for you in line in front of the unemployment office, 10 years from now.

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toast0 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Before you needed actual skill (or luck) to create a good looking CV, especially for niche positions.

Sure, resume writting is a skill, but it's probably not relevant for the position unless the position involves a lot of grant writing or enterprise sales.

	▲	oblio 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ummm.. my point was that before LLMs an utterly unqualified person would not even be able to write a decent CV. They wouldn't be in the candidate pool because they would fail at step 0. Now the village idiot can generate a reasonable CV for very complex jobs.

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zulux 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We ask for something stupid like "3 years of Pascal experience." If the resume has it, it goes straight to the trash unless it has specific real-world Pascal experience.

	▲	vkou an hour ago \| parent [-]
		You'll also filter out people smart enough to know that this is a bullshit keyword matching game and the only way to win it is to put the keywords on their resume. Because they assume that the job posting was written by a non-technical idiot, and 95% of the time, they'd be correct, and they are just playing the game as the game expects to be played. Look. If you're looking for 100% integrity and honesty from everyone in their communication, you shouldn't expect find it in a corporation's hiring and HR process. Everyone white-lies (or black-lies) all the time, both up and down the chain. The bones of this interaction do not value, reward, or even want honesty.