{"id":130058,"date":"2025-09-09T11:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130058\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T11:10:08","slug":"im-looking-for-a-job-again-these-days-its-jobseekers-ai-resume-blather-versus-employers-ai-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/130058\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m looking for a job again. These days it\u2019s jobseekers\u2019 AI resume blather versus employers\u2019 AI jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And also: are you joking?<\/p>\n<p>Is this happening because HR-types are now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5mhru\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using AI to write job description<\/a>s and to screen resum\u00e9s, so they need to come up with ever more inventive ways to torture jobseekers while justifying their own healthy pay packets?<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>Or is there an assumption that we jobseekers are using AI, so you, the employer, think, ahh let\u2019s make them do a video so they can\u2019t just ask ChatGPT why they are qualified to stack shelves or make coffees or answer phones.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, let\u2019s get have them spend their period of forced unemployment developing deep fakes of themselves explaining how their impactful attitude has resulted in a 30 per cent increase in talking complete nonsense. This is surely better for them than worrying about how they are going to pay their mortgages.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn\u2019t stop there either because most of us desperate jobseekers also go to that terrible place where all of life\u2019s events can be miraculously boiled down into three easy lessons which teach us the secrets of enduring professional and business success.<\/p>\n<p>Loading<\/p>\n<p>I am, of course, talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5b7cd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the special kind of purgatory that is LinkedIn<\/a>. While there is an abundance of evidence to suggest that some strange people enjoy sharing their fake authentic selves on this platform, I refuse to believe anyone is there for any other reason than they have been convinced it is the only way to find a job or build a business.<\/p>\n<p>So we dutifully update our LinkedIn profiles, we post three times a day, we craft clever answers to stupid key selection criteria that take an ungodly amount of time, all the while grappling with the fact that everyone else is using AI, but we just can\u2019t make ourselves because it feels like cheating and we don\u2019t cheat. And even if we did use it, we know that it isn\u2019t the promised solution because we will still be writing \u2026 or AI will be writing \u2026 another application tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>We do all the things, and we wait. And then the HR people take forever, they ghost us, they reject us.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all so stupid and such a painful, long and unnecessary process.<\/p>\n<p>There has to be a better way. In LinkedIn talk, we need to disrupt the get-a-job industry! Where is the Uber or the Netflix or the Airbnb that is going to revolutionise and streamline and monetise the gaining of employment? A process that requires less work, not more.<\/p>\n<p>Someone needs to develop that and the sooner, the better.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I have no idea how to do this. If I did, I\u2019d probably have a job.<\/p>\n<p>Tania Cammarano is a Melbourne writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And also: are you joking? 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