Camp Tech<\/a> and an AI educator, says while the act of working a system can be debated as being unethical, it has become the reality of applying for jobs in a difficult job market that often uses AI in various stages of hiring.<\/p>\n\u201cBroadly speaking, there is a lot of artificial intelligence being used on all sides of the hiring process, and many recruiters and employers are using AI at various stages,\u201d Swartz explains. \u201cThey\u2019re literally using it to draft job postings. They\u2019re using it to screen candidates. It\u2019s a big thing and they can be using really sophisticated systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
Swartz says the effectiveness of these hacks that job seekers are hoping will help them \u201cmanipulate\u201d the hiring process all depends on the type of AI an employer uses. Some systems will pick it up while others won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is software that could just be as simple as someone just manually putting a whole bunch of job applications into ChatGPT and asking that system to rank them. It completely depends on what type of system an employer is using and that would determine where these hacks would or wouldn\u2019t work, in terms of putting text in white or adding information in the code of a document.\u201d<\/p>\n
Flooding the market<\/p>\n
An often used tactic to help people land job interviews is to take a quantity over quality approach to applying for jobs \u2014 flooding the market with hundreds of applications. Swartz says people are using AI like ChatGPT or Claude to apply for hundreds of jobs in a short period of time, even just in an afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s literally just doing it at scale. So you\u2019re using some sort of automation tool that is helping you do that. In theory, a human could manually just sit there and just hit the submit button over and over again, but that means that they\u2019re probably using an automation tool. Whether it\u2019s technically artificial intelligence or if it\u2019s just machine automation is on a case by case basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
To Swartz, \u201cit very quickly becomes a race to the bottom of robots talking to robots\u201d and \u201cit\u2019s a cycle that just keeps going around and around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the odds of you standing out among the countless people that mass apply to jobs are slim, you apply to even more jobs, and the cycle just keeps repeating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Breaking the cycle<\/p>\n
Swartz does hiring for her company Camp Tech. She says the only way to break the demoralizing cycle of AI hindered job applications isn\u2019t to try and game the AI, but to get outside of the loop \u2014 be more human.\u00a0<\/p>\n
After going through the official job application process \u2014 sending in your resume and cover letter \u2014 applicants should network.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are social creatures. Work your network, your working relationships, try to get informational interviews with people by getting someone to introduce you to someone. That is often how a lot of hiring really happens,\u201d she elaborates.<\/p>\n
Swartz reminds job seekers to rise above just the fray, \u201cbecause it can be very, very difficult to stand out when everyone is blasting hundreds of applications.\u201d<\/p>\n
But if you have to hack the system in order to get there, she wouldn\u2019t blame you, because sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHiring has always been awful, but now it is especially awful by layering on this, this top layer of technology and AI that just really exacerbates what was already a really fraught process.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know On social media, some people are admitting to gaming the AI hiring systems to land…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,110416,49,48,50094,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-491239","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-ats","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-job-hunt","15":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}