Artificial intelligence is seeing increasing use in the world of recruitment.
AI for many since its emergence in 2023 has been generative AI, such as the famous chatbot ChatGPT or Bard. But technology is far from being limited to these consumer experiences alone. With its analytical power, it can in fact be applied to a number of sectors, where it can save time. Which many have noticed, and are now looking to use to reduce the time-consuming aspect of job applications.
Cheap AI for mass work
The job search can sometimes be likened to an obstacle course, with the hours allocated to finding the right offers, then writing cover letters and CVs. So, when companies discovered that it could automate the process using AI, a number of people began to offer increasingly popular services across the Atlantic.
This is how a company like LazyJob (the name speaks for itself) offers a bot called “Job GPT” which takes care of responding to thousands of offers on its own. The user only has to fill in a certain amount of summary information to guide the search, the technology does the rest. And LazyJob offers great pricing, with a lifetime plan costing just $250.
Other companies in the United States are trying to compete, such as Sonara or Massive, which for a sum of a few dozen dollars per month, promise to fulfill several hundred offers over the same period.
AI to respond to AI?
Some of these companies supervise the bot’s work, others do not. But the idea is always the same, namely to send so many applications that there will necessarily be a few that are interesting and that could be successful.
On the recruiters’ side, reactions are still divided. Some people do not appreciate this bombardment of applications, which resembles spam, and could show a certain indifference from the people in the positions they are targeting. Others, however, do not say they are bothered by the technique.
And all the more so as recruiters are also turning to AI. The boss of the company NeedleFinder Recruiting Emi Dawson explained to the newspaper Wired do not be embarrassed by the fact that 95% of the applications received are inadequate. And for good reason, it itself uses technology, its application tracking software itself eliminating, according to its statements, the vast majority of bad applications. The future ?
Source : Wired
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