You need a job, so anything goes. Your only objective is to get hired, and you should do anything you can to achieve that. Corporations do whatever they can to brutally weed out applicants, so it’s perfectly fair to defend your application in any way you can, including flat-out lying. If they don’t check you close enough, and you get by and get hired, that’s on them.
Do whatever you need to do. Lie on your resume; use AI; automate job applications; rewrite your resume using any tool you can find. It’s a cutthroat environment and I don’t envy anyone trying to find a job right now. Someone I know has been trying for a year and a half and still nothing.
The tech capitalists have captured full control of the industry and they now hold all of the leverage. We don’t have the room we once did for bargaining.
Also, when you do a peer review, say nothing but positive things unless the person is vile. Support fellow working class folks. We can struggle together.
Companies are using AI to select the best applicants. If you can use AI to instantly reformat your resume to best fit the job posting, do so. Job hunting is now a full fledge AI circle jerk.
I’m not saying it’s not worse now, but it’s kinda always been a joke even before AI, right? Feels more like AI is just highlighting what everyone was thinking
If anything it’s the internet that’s the problem.
Back in the day all it took was making the effort to show up and giving a firm handshake. Now there are thousands of applicants and about four or five jobs.
The firm handshake worked great until I met an employer who was higher Dan in Judo than me.
