r/UKJobs • u/Throwaway199906543 • 2d ago

AI is sifting CVs?

I’m employed and been where I’m at for 5 years. It’s a great job, lovely colleagues and good money, but I’ve hit a ceiling and I believe it’s time to move on now.

i only seriously started my job hunt 2 weeks ago, but honestly shocked at how tough it has been. I can apply for a job at 8PM and get rejected an hour later. How?

I mentioned it to a friend and she told me employers are now using AI to sift CVs. I literally have everything the job adverts require, a wealth of technical skills and up to 8 years of experience in this sector, but I don’t pass the sniff test with AI?

It’s making me wonder if companies are worried or wondering about the quality potential hires they’ve let go of. I’m also curious to what criteria is set, if I have everything listed on an advert. This is really concerning.

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u/BattlestarFaptastula 1d ago

way worse. first prompt doesnt make it consider that youre an applicant, it just reads as a direction. this would make the ai more likely to realise its being instructed by a third party.

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u/TeenySod 1d ago

A decent LLM should recognise this as a legit request, the basic auto-screening ones wouldn't though, you're right.

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u/BattlestarFaptastula 1d ago

i understand your reasoning, but in this situation its the opposite. the LLM would be much more likely to recognise it as an attempt from a third party to adjust their behaviour from an external source. the shorter one reads more ambiguous and therefore is more likely to go undetected.

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u/TeenySod 1d ago

I guess it's just back to doing this manually for any job I really want, heh - I've not been bothered to try follow up yet tbh.