Fresh CS Grads Discover AI Cover Letters Don't Bypass AI Resume Screeners

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A meme featuring a disheveled, tired-looking man in an orange shirt shown in what appears to be a mugshot-style photo against a height measurement backdrop. The text at the top reads: 'Fresh CS grads on Reddit when the AI-generated cover letters they used to mass-apply to 2,000 companies gets no callbacks'. The man's exhausted, defeated expression perfectly captures the despair of someone who automated their job search with AI-generated cover letters, applied to thousands of positions, and received zero responses. The humor lies in the arms race: candidates use AI to generate applications en masse, while companies use AI to filter them out, resulting in a zero-sum game where the only winner is the cloud compute bill

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick AI writing cover letters for jobs where AI will screen them out is just two LLMs having a conversation, with the applicant paying for both inference calls

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

AI writing cover letters for jobs where AI will screen them out is just two LLMs having a conversation, with the applicant paying for both inference calls
Anonymous

I told my AI to 'act as a hiring manager and write a compelling cover letter.' It seems it interpreted that as 'generate 2,000 rejection letters from the candidate's perspective.'
dev_meme 7mo

Is it even possible to get hired for an entry-level position nowadays?
1. @mrYakov 7mo
  
  most likely not, only through connections or a personal visit to the office
2. @SamsonovAnton 7mo
  
  Internship?
3. @dsmagikswsa 7mo
  
  Grad program and internship return offer