Lively Apps reposted this
Over the past four weeks, I have read more than 500 applications. Lively Apps would like to hire new software developers. Here is the good, the bad, and the ugly... Good: There are awesome people out there who are able to read the job requirements, well educated, and curious enough to check out the company they are applying to. This is really great and we are confident that we will find the best new colleagues. 😀 Bad: One-third of applicants stop reading after the job title and click "apply". It seems to be the employer's job to fix this. But we've learned a lot about writing a job ad today and how to speed up the initial screening process. 🙄 Ugly: Unfortunately, more than 20% of applications, mostly cover letters, but increasingly CVs, are generated by dumb AI systems, which leads to immediate disqualification without diving deeper into the candidate's knowledge and experience. Folks, stop it! 😤 Finally it is exciting how fast the world is changing. With my experience that I collected in my career I am not well prepared. Lifelong learning is the key :-) Do you had similar expierences? What did you learn from it? Have a nice weekend 😎
We were looking for a Software Engineer some time ago and I did a very similar post! That is amazing how those things align after that time. I remember that I was also complaining about people using LLMs to generate the whole content of their CVs. My takeaway is that those tools are great but when you use them without thinking you end up with something so bad that Hiring Manager will be able to spot it after 2-3 sentences. Good luck with finding the best candidate!
Christian Koch: These are good insights, especially regarding how technology creates less admin for candidates. One-click apply and auto-generated CV/cover letters, however, create lots of additional work for hiring managers, who, according to studies, usually allow 5% of their time for hiring. I would be very interested in a follow-up post about how you find the next stage: insights from running the interviews.