I wouldnât be so confident about that.
Maybe they should take lessons from Brazilian policeâŠ
Why use ChatGPT to add a logo? Thatâs trivial to do even in MSPaint.
Lazy and stupid.
The manager wrote in their comment, âAuto rejection systems from HR make me angry.â They explained that while searching for a new employee, their HR department could not find a single qualified candidate in three months. As expected, the suspicious manager decided to investigate.
âI created myself a new email and sent them a modified version of my CV with a fake name to see what was going on with the process,â they wrote. âAnd guess what, I got auto-rejected. HR didnât even look at my CV.â
When the manager reported the issue to upper management, âhalf of the HR department was fired in the following weeks.â A typographical error with significant consequences caused the entire problem.
The manager works in the tech industry and was trying to hire developers. However, HR had set up the system to search for developers with expertise in the wrong development software and one that no longer exists.
Welcome to the wonderful world of AI
In my day, HR could fuck up staffing without AI. Or even using computers beyond E-Mail.
In early 2001 I applied for a job with the publishing arm of an industry association for engineers. They were about to tie onions to their belts launch a web portal a was the style at the time. They wanted someone with a background in civil engineering to take care of this section. Sort of mix of editor and content generator.
The first interview with two or three people working on the web portal and someone from HR went rather well. So they invited me back for a second round, this time with some higher-ups, including the head of HR who did most of the talking. This time, it didnât go as well as before⊠weird, unconnected questions, but I did my best. Anyway, maybe 20 minutes in, we established that there had been a mix-up in HR and this time they were interviewing me for a completely different position altogether. Still connected to the web portal, though - but designing and running the server farm.
The head of HR didnât strike me as the type of man who could handle an awkward situation with confidence (let alone a sense of humour) or frankly admit any mistakes on his departmentâs part.
The cherry on top turned out to be that the position I had applied for had been more or less filled already bar the signing of the contract.
Mind you, Iâm not complaining. Quite probably a blessing in disguise. As I said, this was in early 2001. So they were a bit late to the party already. And shortly after, the web portal did what most of them did when the dot-com bubble imploded. So I didnât have that on my CV, just a decent career in civil engineering.
Now, with aiâs assistance, they can fuck up even more often and more profoundly.
Wow. A rare example of a manager whoâs trying to hire humans rather than replace them, is skeptical of AI technology, and actually holds people to account for stupid over-reliance on a flawed AI system. Thatâs not normally how these stories go.
What this makes me wonder is wtf is their HR team doing if theyâre not looking at any resumes?
Lines.
Years ago (before A.I. we were hiring engineers who were to work on navigation systems that use ring-laser gyroscopes. We put out the requisition and we only got barely any hits, and those that we did get were for folk who had never worked in engineering. The candidates had weird backgrounds ranging from dermatology to xerox repair.
Turns out HR had put in a filter for the word âlaserâ and rejected any CV/resume that didnât say laser in it. They also automatically accepted resumes that did say laser, even if the context was in laser dermabrasion or laser printer repair.
HR things. You wouldnât understand.
Do they get together and gossip while putting together a Burn Book?
