#AI#GenerativeAI#Chatbots#HR#JobMarket: "Job seekers, frustrated with corporate hiring software, are using artificial intelligence to craft cover letters and résumés in seconds, and deploying new automated bots to robo-apply for hundreds of jobs in just a few clicks. In response, companies are deploying more bots of their own to sort through the oceans of applications.
The result: a bot versus bot war that’s leaving both applicants and employers irritated and has made the chances of landing an interview, much less a job, even slimmer than before.
“You’re fighting AI with AI,” said Brad Rager, chief executive of Crux, a recruiting firm that matches cybersecurity specialists with employers.
The AI arms race is bad for job candidates, he said, who feel defeated when online applications come to nothing, and for employers, who are frustrated when imprecise AI tools highlight weak candidates. “There’s so much promise, but there’s a lot of crap and garbage,” Rager said of the tools used by employers."
#Capitalism#Inequality#JobMarket: "Capitalists acquire assets through frugal saving, hard work, or coming up with groundbreaking ideas, they might argue. Why should society deny them the freedom to use their justly acquired assets to start a business or acquire shares in an existing enterprise?
The first problem with this argument is that many capitalists do not become owners through thriftiness or honest work. Many simply inherit wealth from their families. Others acquire it through defrauding others — tricking other capitalists, for instance, into investing in questionable or downright fake business ideas. Being lucky enough to have a rich parent, or shameless enough to deceive others out of large sums of money, shouldn’t entitle one to decide how society disposes of its wealth.
Occasionally one comes across a true rags-to-riches story, where a person starts out at the bottom of the class hierarchy and manages to scrimp and save enough start-up capital to launch a successful business or invest in others’. But it doesn’t follow from stories like these that the superrich should be given the power of job creation and all that comes with it. Even if a person works hard to become a capitalist, why should that effort be rewarded with the power to personally decide how society’s resources are used and to rule over employees as despots? No matter how they got there, it’s unclear why owners should be able to acquire enough wealth to dominate the political process and effectively make a sham out of our democracy.
Socialists say: they shouldn’t. Everyone should have equal opportunity to contribute to major economic decisions — including what is produced and how — and everyone deserves to be rewarded for the fruits of their labor, including the workers who are mercilessly exploited under our current system. We should stop simping for parasitic “job creators” and demand that their wealth and power be shared with everyone."
2024 presents a potentially beneficial landscape for job seekers, particularly within the tech sector. Opportunities may be plentiful, and skill requirements could see shifts.
Companies large and small shed over 240,000 jobs across the tech sector in 2023. But the new year may bring new hope. Tech Crunch explains why climate tech could be the hot job market in 2024. https://flip.it/OysOcL #Tech#JobMarket#ClimateChange#TechCrunch
The #jobmarket in #tech is simply horrible. No matter where you apply, there are dozen others more experienced than you. If you have not studied tech at university, you cannot count on alumni and former teachers for networking. #jobsearch#job#career
(This will be a very long list by the end of the year if I keep it up. We'll see.)
Your statements are basically done after the first few deadlines. I always thought I'd customize extensively for each school.
Nope.
On a week like this (with so many apps due Sep 15), you just don't have time. You have to trust that you already put in the work with your base template. It's a mental shift from fellowship apps.
Going back to the #JobTalk, I like Betty Lai's advice emphasizing the need to tell a story with your talk.
I generally enjoy presenting my research to an audience (mostly as an escape from writing), but the job talk is a completely different genre. Still learning the rules but getting better.
Jobs you don't get. Potential futures that disappear. Relationships that change or become strained during this time.
And maybe you don't let yourself fully process the grief yet, because there's no time before the next application, interview, or talk... but I can see how a recovery period will be crucial, no matter the outcome.
Advice is only helpful if you're in the right headspace to receive it. At some point, you have to start taking only what you need. Filter out the rest.
Example: This article was shared with me before my first campus visit. It seems perfectly fine (and I'm choosing to share it here), but at the time it felt like a list of additional stressors.
An offer is great, but then you have a decision to make. Fast.
And I gather that it's not uncommon to have to make that decision before you hear about other options.
Generally, I try not to post about a stage (i.e., job talk) until a few weeks after I've experienced it. Time to process and such. But this one is in real-time. And boy it's tough.
My friends/colleagues & I cowrote a commentary for #JournalOfPlanningEducationandResearch that we're thrilled to get out: "Notes from the Trenches: Reflections from Recent #PhD Graduates on Navigating the #Academy"
I am so grateful for the friends/colleagues who collaborated on this and the chance to practice together the kind of academy we want and believe is possible.
Job market pressure really sabotaged my networking attempts at first.
It took me until around Saturday night to start letting that pressure go. And it's a lot easier to talk to someone when you're genuinely excited about their work, rather than feeling like you "have to" build connections.
It took me a while but I got there. And now I can follow up with folks over email. Not so scary after all.
For anyone following along from yesterdays bit about feeling like an imposter. Apparently I passed the 15 question assessment with a 99% and the 40 question assessment with 80%.
Apparently only 21% of an imposter. :BlobhajShock:
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
Will there be any service sector employees in the future Finland mauled by Petteri Orpos (NCP) government?
Probably not because part-time jobs are the new that far-right-government wants to abolish bc they feel it’s unnecessary to waste ones time in part time jobs when a full time job is waiting somewhere over the rainbow or some shit like that.
I can’t help but wonder - the experts seem surprised by how well the US job market and economy is performing. Maybe it’s as simple as the boomers are retiring and we’re getting some new energy and technological advancement as younger generations get a chance to lead the way.
Wages are rising. Jobs are plentiful. Nobody’s happy. (www.vox.com)
It’s a good time to be a worker and a bad time to be a consumer — the problem is most people are both.