This AI bot fills out job applications for you while you sleep
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This week WIRED Start looks at AI-powered services that zip through the grunt work of job applications – helping one programmer apply for 5,000 jobs. But they can make mistakes, and some recruiters scorn the technology.
In July, software engineer Julian Joseph became the latest victim of the tech industry’s sweeping job cuts. Facing his second layoff in two years, he dreaded spending another couple months hunched over his laptop filling out repetitive job applications and blasting them into the void.
Joseph specializes in user interface automation and figured someone must have roboticized the unpleasant task of applying for jobs. Casting about online, he came upon a company called LazyApply. It offers an AI-powered service called Job GPT that promises to automatically apply to thousands of jobs “in a single click.” All he had to fill in was some basic information about his skills, experience, and desired position.
After Joseph paid $250 for a lifetime unlimited plan and installed LazyApply’s Chrome extension, he watched the bot zip through applications on his behalf on sites like LinkedIn and Indeed, targeting jobs that matched his criteria.?
Many job seekers will understand the allure of automating applications. Slogging through different applicant tracking systems to reenter the same information, knowing that you are likely to be ghosted or auto-rejected by an algorithm, is a grind, and technology hasn’t made the process quicker.?
“The fact that this tool exists suggests that something is broken in the process,” Joseph says. “I see it as taking back some of the power that’s been ceded to the companies over the years.”
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Sales Representative / Digital Marketing Virtual Assistant
6 个月LazyApply sounds great for speeding up job applications. I’ve been using Jobsolv, which does the same thing with automation and resume optimization, but for free. It’s been super helpful with my job search. Definitely worth checking out as a free option
Social Media and Marketing Manager
12 个月Haven't tried LazyApply before but I know this is a game changer for us job seekers and also I'm liking Jobsolv I recently started paying for it so it would write my cover letters. I’ve had two interviews in the last couple weeks. I know I won’t get one job, but I have a shot at the other.
Senior Technical Engineer who builds tools | Expert in Idea Realization
1 年I bought LazyApply. I will have to fire it up again after this article.
ICT Counsel | Autodidact @ SYNC01? Global Outreach Mechanism?
1 年"After Joseph paid $250 for a lifetime unlimited plan and installed app?" This kind of AUTOMATED genarated email/cv distribution, put stress | overload | on the electricity gid system - hence nothing to be proud about it's efficiency, raping (24/7) of the environment ! NO PLANET B ! LazyApply’s - is your data center utilisation as "LAZY" as it's modus operandi, environment, what environment? I have audited a few data center (none of your businesss - clearance level)) and can confirmed, that confirmity level is low. Employment seeking, is an honourable trait - aided by processes, not a short cut mechanism !