obliving.bsky.social
Curious mind exploring the shifting world of work.
👤 Joined on 27 February 2025
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@obliving.bsky.socialUnpopular job hunting thought: cover letters are a waste of time. Most hiring managers don't care about them, AI screening tools don't care about them...they only serve as another way to be screened out of a first interview opportunity. In the long run you'll get just as many interviews without one
Show PostTransparency is one of his greatest strengths. #comic #comicsky
Show PostOnline dating is basically job hunting - you didn't meet and fall in love, you answered an advert - it's not a "date", it's an interview. A transaction. When you see it for what it is, it's hardly surprising that so many people "move on" when another offer comes along.
Show PostI don't agree it's inevitable, because AI is not actually good at doing my job. AI is definitionally incapable of creating anything novel. The ubiquitous rollout and forcefeeding of gen AI is wishful thinking from execs who have thrown billions into a black hole and are desperate to find a use case
Show PostWhat it is going to do in the meantime before the bubble bursts is drive down our wages and curtail our opportunities. There is value in continuing to resist so that use of AI is a reputational burden
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