I tried out this job application bot,
Massive
, which was mentioned in an NPR segment on AI. I was hopeful that it could help speed and broaden my job search.
The TL;dr version is: don't waste your money. It's not ready for prime time yet. Here's why:
- The mid-range subscription level isn't customized. The $39/month "Massive" version doesn't enable customization or communication, so it's ONLY sending your standard résumé, not even a cover letter with it. You can, however, pay more for customization--which I would have done, if the bot performed as promised. Note there is also a free "Passive" subscription level, which automatically applies to every job that matches your criteria.
- It doesn't apply to 50 jobs a week, as promised. The claim that it applies to up to 50 jobs a week (20 during the trial) is 100% bogus. It claims to send new applications every one to three days; my experience did not support that claim. I chose 17 jobs to apply to ten days ago, and it has applied to a total of two of those jobs for me. I can and do apply faster and better on my own. And I customize my résumé and cover letter to the job.
- Support is practically nonexistent. When I discovered that there was the option to pay monthly instead of quarterly and to pay more for customization, I messaged on its chat three times over four days to asking about changing my subscription. I didn't get a response until four days later, when the rep told me they were behind but had a big revamp coming on Tuesday (yesterday), when everything would be so much better. (Narrator: It wasn't.)
Despite the fact that the user who tried it for the NPR segment said he got a 5-10% interview rate, that has definitely not been my experience.
It's really a shame, because this is EXACTLY the type of thing that AI is perfect for: feed in four or five versions of my résumé and three hundred cover letters, and apply to jobs for me. Kinda wish I had the programming skills to develop my own bot!
Has anyone tried a job application bot you DO like? I'd like to try a few more and write about my experience.
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1 个月I firmly believe that the rise of AI Job Application bots is a response to the de-hoodwinking of the applicant population; the revelation that the EDI/AI-powered automatic review (dismissal) of applications based overwhelmingly on heuristics and not human review coupled with the growing population of "pipeline requisitions" that do not actually reflect real openings. It's a terrible but equal response to the abject failure of HR practices that have led us here.
A thought --- don't use AI tools...actually use AI. We saw this post and whipped up a quick Job Application Agent in about 10 minutes that does a few things automatically: https://app.kindo.ai/workstation?workflowId=45ea3065-283c-4856-98ea-4704c83c600f&chatId=clv6sp4yb00ailahxdvqrssk0&type= You can use Kindo for free at www.kindo.ai and build any agent you want to do what you want it to do in the way. you want it to!
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7 个月Exploring AI for job applications sounds like an interesting experiment.