You need a job, so anything goes. Your only objective is to get hired, and you should do anything you can to achieve that. Corporations do whatever they can to brutally weed out applicants, so it's perfectly fair to defend your application in any way you can, including flat-out lying. If they don't check you close enough, and you get by and get hired, that's on them.
My partner applied for a job that said people with a certain training course were preferred. She said that she had that course even though she did not, she got an interview and ended up getting the job a few weeks back and starts next week.
She took the course after she got accepted, as it was a few hundred dollars that would have been a waste of money if she hadn't got the job.
Lying is acceptable to get employed within reason.
Companies are using AI to select the best applicants. If you can use AI to instantly reformat your resume to best fit the job posting, do so. Job hunting is now a full fledge AI circle jerk.
That's exactly what I did on the last job I applied to. I used a prompt along the lines of "I'm applying for a job. Here's the job description paste job description here's my resume paste resume. Please format it to best fit this job description. It knocked it out of the park, and filled it with all the stupid buzzwords I'd need to get through the application filter. The company is an AI company. If they have a problem with me using AI to make my resume better, they're missing the point.
paste resume
how do you do that? are you just uploading the PDF?
Nah, just pasting the text
Upload the pdf xml as text, got it.
I'm not saying it's not worse now, but it's kinda always been a joke even before AI, right? Feels more like AI is just highlighting what everyone was thinking
If anything it's the internet that's the problem.
Back in the day all it took was making the effort to show up and giving a firm handshake. Now there are thousands of applicants and about four or five jobs.
The firm handshake worked great until I met an employer who was higher Dan in Judo than me.
Yeah because those four or five job let you actually survive in today’s economy
Nah, this is a bad path we’re traveling now
pretty much that... who's losing what now?
Do whatever you need to do. Lie on your resume; use AI; automate job applications; rewrite your resume using any tool you can find. It’s a cutthroat environment and I don’t envy anyone trying to find a job right now. Someone I know has been trying for a year and a half and still nothing.
The tech capitalists have captured full control of the industry and they now hold all of the leverage. We don’t have the room we once did for bargaining.
Also, when you do a peer review, say nothing but positive things unless the person is vile. Support fellow working class folks. We can struggle together.
Went from employee of the year to laid off and ghosted 90% of apps for 2 years 😁😁😁
God that sucks. I was laid off for 3 months and hated it. I can’t even fathom 2 years. That is rough, friend.
I get what you’re saying, but fuck this race to the bottom. I don’t want to live in a world where my doctor/lawyer/city engineer lied on her resume to get a job she’s actually not qualified for and now might harm someone.
You don’t have to accept AI as inevitable.
You can also use AI without lying. For example, by reviewing everything it outputs before submitting.
I should clarify that my post is mostly about the tech industry because that’s all I really know. It’s a field where you can get some leeway and figure shit out. If you’re a doctor, they’re gonna check your background and credentials pretty thoroughly and I don’t recommend lying in a field like that.
Soham Parekh, is this you?
The online college I'm taking classes at has a whole long ass disclaimer about how using AI is forbidden. I'm positive the professors are using AI to grade. Bulletized strength and weaknesses that just parrot back what I wrote.