Software Developer vs Recruiter: Using AI To Land The Job in 2025

[@cos_marc]

Unfortunately the whole AI thing is heading people into even more useless work. For example what's the point in rewriting an email with GPT just so the person at the other end is summarizing your email with the same GPT... it's mega stupid. Instead of actually chatting with the developers on linkedin, the bots of the devs will chat with the bots of the recruiters.

[@TravisMedia]

What to do, then? Pull out the calculators?

[@cos_marc]

@@TravisMedia to avoid creating these expectations of "nicely" (though nice is debatable) written emails and cover letters and accept simple words that come directly from the person not from some hallucinating gpt. Especially in tech, people are not good copywriters.

[@yesyes9698]

This is what I find so funny. Was talking with some friends about that, like that spiderman meme pointing each other 😂😂😂😂

[@mohamedayman7760]

ok let me tell you that I found job postings that says it's forbidden to use AI to write coverletters and candidates who do will be banned from future openings. I find it kind of funny since it's a junior position

[@TravisMedia]

They also say you need 15 years of Next.js experience.

[@pcls-tech]

That's why you have to edit it to make it look more authentic

[@traezeeofor]

Thanks so much for this. Just used your ATS friendly resume tips to "refactor" my CV/Resume 😋

[@evgenykopunov5459]

I think hiring a candidate is still a "people" thing. The idea of automating it is tempting and lucrative to both sides - especially for those of us who hate to talk to people. But I don't really see it happening. Instead of adding to the terabytes of AI-generated junk and hoping it'll land a job I think it's better to finally figure out how to be part of community, network and land a job through your connections - the stuff that by definition can't be automated. This is what people will still fall back on in the end.

[@abhishekkumar-il1ni]

This is nice. The interview practice part with AI was cool.

[@hitmusicworldwide]

While job seekers reject AI, the job providers are using AI . That tells you something😅

[@AlexBall03]

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

[@fadinimer4574]

AI destroyed the fabric of hiring system, recruiters depend heavily on AI to select candidates, candidates go through 5 and 6 interviews and sometime more, candidates spend hours and hours to study for interviews then at the end they tell you "After careful consideration and review, we have decided to move forward with other candidate whose qualifications and experiences more closely align with our current needs", then you hit your head in a wall asking yourself what did I do wrong, what skills I am missing, I answered all their questions correctly and they were happy during the interviews!!!! and when you ask for feedback they never respond back to you. This experience makes you frustrated, depressed and hate yourself. In my personal experience (cause I went through all this for 10 months now) the hiring system is broken and needs to be fixed, I hope they don't use AI to fix it.

[@mohamadybr]

I am surprised that people are against this! How about we stop using frameworks and start coding in vanilla languages! Also, let's avoid using packaging and transpiling libraries, let's add backward and multiple-browser compatibility ourselfes! Does this sound fair to avoid using the help of automation and AI? AI tools are great if they are used correctly, but we MUST be careful with the information we get from them! If we were to copy and paste only, then the problem is us, not the AI! Thanks for the amazing video. I got laied off and I needed to start applying for jobs ASAP, so I wrote an initial CV and kept asking ChatGPT for reviews and improvements. Now my CV scores high on all CV rating apps and I'm not ashamed of asking AI for help!

[@HowardCodes]

Really great video. I think also, that people should be making sure to fine-tune everything AI spits out. As it is not perfect and companies are getting better at detecting people that are using it to do the heavy lifting. It should be no more than a smart guiding tool.

[@TravisMedia]

Yes! Great point

[@mdyousufgazi4030]

wow. these are some valuable tips and suggestions

[@notthere83]

Reaching out on LinkedIn - as if that ever works. If you're an employee, what would YOU tell some random person that contacts you on LinkedIn? That's right - "just go to our careers page and apply". And if many people started messaging me, I'd probably start a black list of people who nag others in order to try and get a job.

[@zachpalmer5538]

But if it writes bad code and has no context to what bad and good code is how is the analysis valid

[@hitmusicworldwide]

Don't believe that "bad code" argument. It's trained the same way that humans are trained. It had access to the same documentation, examples, coding history, and textbooks. If you don't know anything about the way it's trained that means you don't understand Ai. You think it's a black box. That's not true. Human readable object oriented computer languages are abstractions. Because they're made by humans They're full of bugs, inconsistencies, and vulnerabilities. The whole thing gets compiled down to machine code anyway. Why? Because machine code is extremely difficult for humans to understand and use. I believe the "bad code" arguement is put out by sour grape, AI scared devs trying to maintain a "black box" myth about code creation. Some see themselves as part of some mysterious guild of "artist wizards". Software is not art. Software is not magic. If these magical developers were so good at what they do, why are there so many bugs and vulnerabilities in the software written by these human perfectionists? I've been doing music for a long time. When drum machines first came out, drummers were haters, just like the devs are about AI today. But in modern music use of a drum machine or in a DAW is totally normal.

[@marcialabrahantes3369]

cover-letter who? he

[@timmyers9798]

I know, let's just replace developers with robots, recruiters with robots and hope the idiots that eventually get recruited can do the job for more than few weeks.