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title: "How do I use AI for searching for job?"
date: 2024-10-28T10:35:03+01:00
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That's easy. I use it for grammar and spell checking for cover letters and my resume.
Why do I limit it to these specific uses? I am a real person who at least hopes that job applications will be read by other real people. LLM's can't replicate the way I talk or the way I write. The English that they generate is not my English. My English is a combination of Southern Midwestern Illinois/Kentucky, Central North Carolina, and even a bit of Central European because those are the three areas where I have lived all of my life. The idioms and metaphors that I use come from these places. My accent is weird and only gets weirder depending on where I am physically at that time and what I'm doing. When I write, that comes through even with something as professional as a cover letter for a resume.
In comparison, LLM's have their own "accent," so to speak. This is more obvious when you consider the way they organize words, the synonyms that they choose, and the fact that they sound like they are writing a paper for peer review instead of sounding like a real person. I don't want my resume or my cover letters to sound like this. It's not me. If you interview me and hear a slight "country" twang in my accent, there's a reason for that.
I haven't interviewed that many people in my career. Most that I have done have been technical interviews. However, if I'm reviewing resumes/CVs, it's pretty easy to pick up on LLM-speak, and I would probably put them on a lower tier of potential applicants than someone who seems legit but also misspelled a word. In my opinion, if you want the job, you will at least put out the effort to write a (mostly) customized cover letter. I couldn't care less if the cover letter is mostly a form letter that you have customized for a specific job, as long as it was a real person who wrote it. I also realize, eventually, LLMs will get smarter and will be able to impersonate a normal person's writing style perfectly. That day is coming. When it does, I think it will get tougher to tell LLM-speak from normal English. I also think interviews will get tougher as a result. At least, that's my two cents.