Reminds me of how "The Man from Mars" (by Stanisław Lem) finally understand what humor was about. Look at most jokes ignoring the humor and you find be an endless stream of tragedies.
I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could've been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn't up the metrics of AI usage in your department!
Wouldn't it have been easier to just get AI to wrote the message and then just use that same canned response going forward instead of using AI to generate it each time? What a waste of resources
Also people don't know how to be social anymore so they find it easier to tell a robot to write a warm rejection email rather than writing one themselves.
Reply: You really missed out not offering me a job, as I would have never made such a big mistake. But seeing how unprofessional your company is, I am no longer interested.
HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload, making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up - at least there was a conscious decision here to reply to an applicant, many just ghost them which is just bad form.
It sure does. I for my part always used the official EU tool for creating my CV and applications, which made applying somewhere a pretty fast act - if i looked for the next job, i just uploaded the file with my old CV there and could just add what was new. It's pretty useful even today i think! https://europass.europa.eu/en/create-europass-cv
My experience was not as abysmal as yours, but it also is much farther in the past - last time i was job hunting was around 2016. That 1% response rate is awful… only way to mentally survive that is by not expecting to hear anything back.
That's complete nonsense. While people were (mostly) writing applications by hand for each, companies have been automating this process for over 10 years at this point, way before LLMs were even a thing.
This has increased after AI. Heck rejections come within a few seconds of applying. Once I got (what I presume an internal-only info) something akin to "this opening is just for compliance reasons. We are actually not hiring for this position". This placeholder was sent with rejection email (again presuming its for internal info only)
I would actually enjoy reading that. We all know it happens, and happens a lot. Would be nice to hear about it so we know we didnt fail, it just wasnt possible to succeed.
As someone else in the comments here pointed out, if it's a regional/local franchise or a small business then they could reveal their own location by revealing the company's name.
It doesn't even need to be personal. Just send them a notification notice. Nothing about this has to be personalized, it's already going to their email. Anything more and it's just bs. Even the notification of rejection email is already kinda bs because when you never hear back, you know you've been rejected, and the email itself is a functional courtesy. It could literally just be:
You were getting placeholder rejection messages before AI too. As if I care about how personalized my rejection msg is, im fine with getting a simple no if it is a no-whatever
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Shouldn't hide the company's name.
Might go to doxing the poster if it's a local company.
This is not a meme. This is just sad.
Reminds me of how "The Man from Mars" (by Stanisław Lem) finally understand what humor was about. Look at most jokes ignoring the humor and you find be an endless stream of tragedies.
I personally wouldnt insult someone for not considering a definition of a word that isnt even relevant in this context
Thanks, you too!
Coming in hot! Damn dude, who pissed in your oatmeal this morning?
'Twas I.
He spent more time writing the prompt than he would with just writing an email. I think you dodged a bullet by not getting hired there
I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could've been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn't up the metrics of AI usage in your department!
Also email templates are a solved problem, there is like no reason to use AI for this
"Please generate an AI prompt for a polite rejection message for a candidate that wasn't picked"
I think the prompt might have been set up for like 1000 people, though.
You can set up a basic non-LLM template for like 1000 people, too
Who's he?
Employers "mimimi, don't write your cover letter with AI!!!"
Lukewarm regards
Tepid regards
Absolute zero regards?
Negative Kelven regards,
Who's KelvEn?
Look, you. Not all of us are en the know about how to spell names.
Wouldn't it have been easier to just get AI to wrote the message and then just use that same canned response going forward instead of using AI to generate it each time? What a waste of resources
If it’s a canned response, why not just do it yourself? It’d take like 5 minutes. Oh, those skills are rotting because AI? Yeah.
because they probably fired the person who does it and filled the position with AI
Also people don't know how to be social anymore so they find it easier to tell a robot to write a warm rejection email rather than writing one themselves.
I see this a lot. I got brought into a project where the entire CI/CD was a prompt.
Who's to say this isn't ai's best effort?
Where meme?
This place has devolved into just images some may find mildly entertaining.
If only there was a community for that...
I may not know what a meme is, but I know an asshole when I see one
Learn to read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
So explain, please. Where is the imitation in a screenshot of an e-mail?
Also, an internet meme is a distinct phenomenon, as even your wikipedia article mentions. I don't assume you read that far though.
Third, Dawkin's model has been refuted and proven wrong to the point where even Dawkins distances himself from this concept.
Reply: You really missed out not offering me a job, as I would have never made such a big mistake. But seeing how unprofessional your company is, I am no longer interested.
As a cost-cutting measure, rejected applicants will be given a prompt and expected to generate their own rejection message. {{Announcement_closing}}.
Now I want to know the company.
That's not a meme. This post should be deleted.
Why not just say "we are sorry but we will not be moving forward with your application at this time" like a normal person?
Unless....
Why not ghost the candidate which seems to be the most normal response these days for some reason
Yeah, the state of things is ugly.
HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload, making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up - at least there was a conscious decision here to reply to an applicant, many just ghost them which is just bad form.
That goes both ways. Employers have been auto rejecting applicants for years, so applicants have shifted to automating applications.
Why should someone looking for a job take the time to craft an application, when it gets rejected without a person ever actually looking at it.
Last time I went job hunting (2yrs ago), I got a response from less than 1% of the jobs I applied to.
It sure does. I for my part always used the official EU tool for creating my CV and applications, which made applying somewhere a pretty fast act - if i looked for the next job, i just uploaded the file with my old CV there and could just add what was new. It's pretty useful even today i think! https://europass.europa.eu/en/create-europass-cv
My experience was not as abysmal as yours, but it also is much farther in the past - last time i was job hunting was around 2016. That 1% response rate is awful… only way to mentally survive that is by not expecting to hear anything back.
You're making it sound like it was the applicant foult while the recruting proces was broken years before AI became common.
Also in the recruitment process HR is the professional while a applicant is amateur. The burden should be primarily on them.
That's complete nonsense. While people were (mostly) writing applications by hand for each, companies have been automating this process for over 10 years at this point, way before LLMs were even a thing.
Still better than ghosting I usually get.
I don’t know, I think I’d rather be ghosted
Ghosts are way more eco-friendly than AI, and way less tied up in billionaire wealth.
Well it looks like this reminder worked 😆
Nah just shame em now… don’t let them hide behind this fallacy.
Also when you click apply and within seconds get a rejection email and this is the first sentence:
"Thank you for applying, after careful consideration we decided not to move forward..."
And this, friends, is why you use a human in the loop if you're using AI
The whole point is they don't care enough about you, the candiate, to put a human in the loop.
Just don't use ai
This has increased after AI. Heck rejections come within a few seconds of applying. Once I got (what I presume an internal-only info) something akin to "this opening is just for compliance reasons. We are actually not hiring for this position". This placeholder was sent with rejection email (again presuming its for internal info only)
I would actually enjoy reading that. We all know it happens, and happens a lot. Would be nice to hear about it so we know we didnt fail, it just wasnt possible to succeed.
Can't that be reported to whatever government agency that made the requirement?
22 downvotes from that company......
Downvotes could be about censoring the company name instead of exposing them.
As someone else in the comments here pointed out, if it's a regional/local franchise or a small business then they could reveal their own location by revealing the company's name.
Softwaregore
What on earth about this message requires AI?
This is a simple string interpolation that anyone who has been coding for five minutes can write a script for.
It doesn't even need to be personal. Just send them a notification notice. Nothing about this has to be personalized, it's already going to their email. Anything more and it's just bs. Even the notification of rejection email is already kinda bs because when you never hear back, you know you've been rejected, and the email itself is a functional courtesy. It could literally just be:
Email:
From: [email protected]
To: you
Subject: jobname application rejection date
Body: none
The AI is meant to create the message contents here
Dookieman12 up in here making it his personal mission to provide a definition of "meme" to all the naysayers , lol
And providing a link to the wrong Wikipedia page as he's insulting people lmao
You were getting placeholder rejection messages before AI too. As if I care about how personalized my rejection msg is, im fine with getting a simple no if it is a no-whatever
A simple fuck off will suffice too
This is where you send it back and ask if they're hiring for the position of the person who made it.