i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox

[dss@infosec.exchange]

@reijomancer @davidcelis You already got funded for £3 trillion by a hundred AI bots!

[iwillyeah@mastodon.ie]

@deFractal @davidcelis where's that, if I may ask?

[merospit@infosec.exchange]

@deFractal @davidcelis Is it yet illegal to require an LLM be used to generate a resume?

There was a recent study where over 90% of job applications were rejected by company LLMs if they were not written by an LLM.

At that level any company with a non-human LLM as the first reviewer is already requiring a resume writing service be used.

[cratermoon@zirk.us]

@erisceleste @davidcelis I agree this is a terrible idea, but I find it funny to note, given how often companies are laying off scores of people regularly these days, a candidate-pays recruiter model might actually have repeat customers. Yeah I kind of hate this timeline.

[bhhaskin@social.bitsofsimplicity.com]

@davidcelis haha good luck with that. People aren't going to pay.

[zimzat@mastodon.social]

@davidcelis @cratermoon This reminds me of some job board that advertised itself as helping developers get the best paying jobs or some-such by matching relevant keywords (before the current AI and applicant tools). Submitted my resume and got told "You're not very popular with our jobs; it may help to say you know Python"

[rpbook@gts.phillipsuk.org]

@davidcelis Andre is right that it's a crazy idea

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@davidcelis @JessTheUnstill Perfect response.

[davep@infosec.exchange]

@davidcelis Perfect reply.

[eldersea@expressional.social]

@davidcelis Just like rental agencies where renters have to pay the realtor fees. Absolutely psychopathic/capitalist behavior. Great reply.

[avuko@infosec.exchange]

@davidcelis

Not only are you paying these fucking sociopaths, you’re actually paying to be handled by an AI agent.

I hate the stupid cruelty of this timeline.

hxxps://tryrefer[.]com/

[karlauerbach@sfba.social]

@davidcelis Employers can deduct hiring expenses from their taxes.

Can those seeing jobs deduct their costs? (And, if so, from what income - people seeking jobs sometimes don't have any income from which they can make a deduction.)

[peteriskrisjanis@toot.lv]

@davidcelis what an actual insanity is this

[hatemainstreetsm@mastodon.social]

@davidcelis of course you realize you're a f'n hero, right?

[jmmaok@mastodon.online]

@davidcelis

Completely ridiculous! As someone who previously worked in HR, it's pretty standard advice to candidates -- going back decades -- that any agency that expects the candidate to pay is a scam. This is advice that job seekers will receive regularly, and of course it may already be obvious to many of them.

This whole thing sounds like it's bots all the way down, and all the way up.

[stux@mstdn.social]

@davidcelis wow

the balls

[just_tired@mastodon.world]

@davidcelis
I used to think no one should suffer through explosive diarrhea.

[steveclough@metalhead.club]

@davidcelis Good on you. What an insane and ridiculous business proposition.

He raised $10M for this? Obviously from stupid people with a lot of money. Because there is no way they are ever going to see any of that back.

Assuming he is telling the truth - it is entirely possible that everything in the into is just the usual lies and BS.

[mongoosestudios@hachyderm.io]

@davidcelis I didn't know Forbes had an "under 30" list for "soulless parasites" these days. Now I do.

[johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org]

@@xoxo.zone
Content aside, but that mix of “Stanford MBA, Forbes under 30” self-promotion and informal “Hi David” feels nauseating. Maybe it’s an US thing, but it reads like a parody of LinkedIn’s worst excesses and if anyone would ever introduce themselves the only sensible response would seem “Why, thank you, I'd like to awfully, but I'm having labor pains.”