JetUNsetter

I can obviously spend hours highlighting the issues in hiring. Such a complex, human, social, impactful process. I guess my post should be Hiring #1.

Quite a few people I have recently talked to admit they have tweaked their CV using ChatGPT and the like. Cool. I don’t find anything here. There used to be CV writers so fine. The funny issue is that once the CV is submitted, AI tools do the first screening!

So a human on one end, uses a robot to trick a robot that does the screenings to that the human can meet the other human when finding themselves in the short list of another human. We could come up with a human to human process and skip the robot to robot step? Of course, sure, we don’t have time to waste.

Don’t we? There are no unemployed HR professionals out there that could do the first screening with real human connection? And really, if you are running a business is there a more important area to invest in than hiring? Trusting your baby onto others, to serve it, grow it, defend it out in the capitalist world?

If robots do grow intelligent and even more, emotionally intelligent, what would you think their reaction would be when they sit there writing non interesting, repetitive, off the can CVs to feed into another robot that does not care about anything more than just spotting words? They would arguably laugh, no?

And what is the point of this CV document in our modern era? There could be a platform a little more regulated and global than LinkedIn where education and work experience is logged for everyone and hiring people can just go through it. No fancy words or AI pictures, just facts. No robots needed. Just a search engine on the tool. No need for CV drama.

And then, the big question how to you jump off the pack, how do you make a mark? Well, to begin with by applying to the job. Not every second person in the world wants that job. Just you. Will and interest should be getting through the door. Not an Ai generated boring Cv.

I know, there are companies so sought after that they need something to screen candidates. To begin with, let them solve this problem. The way that fits them. For the rest of the hiring managers out there, let’s admit you might not be so sought after, so maybe your problem is not screening to begin with. For some is even finding candidates (some soul searching needed there for why that might be, and not sure AI can help you there pall) or just good candidates (increase the money on offer is usually a good solution to this problem or fixing some cultural issues?). For these kind of hiring scenaria, a phone call would do much more than that 2page bullet point accumulation of clichés.

Humans are by nature lazy. We like to think there are witches and wizards out there to whom we can delegate a complex problem to and they will come with a rabbit off from their hat. Some tend to believe AI is yet another one of them. A solution to a problem… Sad news, it seems like an enabler and only when used properly. So really, nothing so much innovative than your knife in the kitchen drawer…. It can cut the bread which you need to buy first and someone had to bake before that. If not used properly it will cut the finger… Please help me make sense of this one too…