Possibly screwed over by AI

[Zkr623]

In the interests of time and to avoid errors, I wanted to reply as quickly and smoothly to an interview request by email from a recruiter who wanted to move to the next step. So I let my AI app formulate a quick reply. Only after sending, I noticed AI had added a telltale 'signature' to the bottom.

" Thank you for reaching out. Thursday, November 20th at 1pm works perfectly—I’ll be available and looking forward to our conversation.

You can reach me at (XXX) XXX XXXX.

Best regards,

Would you like a slightly more casual or more formal version as well? You can reach me at 2XX XXX XXXX

"

Am I screwed? AI suggested a followup to tell her to disregard the last email BUT that would just draw more attention to it. I am so embarassed. Aren't recruiters trained to look for details? Is this over?

Is it a recruitment consultant?

if so I’d worry less- they’re after their commission and won’t care about these things, provided you’re a good candidate for them to put in front of the client.

You can tell it’s AI because of the big long hyphen anyway.

You use AI for efficiency, not to replace a lack of skill/effort. You misused the AI in this case. Learn from it and hope there are no real consequences this time round.

spot on

Didn't you also notice there's also two completely different styles in those two sentences?

'Blabla works perfectly' sounds friendly,enthusiastic and then a formal 'I'll be available,look forward to it'.

Even without the footer, I'd have been suspicious 🤣

🤣 I always remove them as it’s a dead giveaway!

It would be a no from me.

It just shows a complete lack of attention to detail.

I wouldn't hire someone who used AI to respond to a basic email. My company also is wary of AI's usage of private systems.

Yeah that’s hopefully a lesson learned that relying on AI will never help your career!

I have adhd too and do exactly this. I’m also dyslexic too and have a lot of shame around how long simple writing tasks can take me, but I would never trust chat GPT etc alone. It’s often wrong, so everything needs fact checking, it’s often obvious it’s been used too, so I end up spending just as long rewording and taking out all the obvious indicators of it being an ai generated letter, it often ends up taking me longer. My anxiety around looking lazy to a future employer or forgetting to remove mistakes that would show I've obviously used it, would make me prefer to spend 20(+) mins writing a few simple lines.

Yes

Well that’s what you get for being lazy

Well, it would be if I was the one hiring you. But I’m not, and nor is anyone else on this thread. However, if the job role requires any degree of attention to detail, then you certainly don’t deserve to get it.

I’ve also weeded out candidates for this before- and any other obvious AI tells. I want to know YOU can do the job, not chatGPT, and I also want to know you care enough to put the effort in.

Are you as a recruiter uploading potential candidate's CVs etc to an AI for analysis? Or are you running the AI infrastructure locally so you can ensure security for all that PII?

AI hasn't screwed you. You did this to yourself.

AI didn't screw you over - your reluctance to proofread did. It does smack of not really being arsed about the job, so why should anyone put you forward for it? Edited to say, it's your choice whether to apologise to Deanna and be human about it, or just let it go and hope for the best. An apology might result in some goodwill...

You would have to be really stand out as a job candidate for me to now consider you. I'm just being realistic in a job market where sometimes you receive hundreds of applications.

A recruiter might however overlook this error

I check everything too but it doesn’t normally take me as long as that. For me, it’s like having a PA to do all the niggly tasks so I can focus on the important ones. I’m good at scanning and spotting errors.

It would be over if I were the recruiter, to be honest.

AI didn’t screw you over. You did this to yourself. If you put a spade through your foot it would be your fault. Bad workman blames his tools…….

It must have taken longer to get AI to do it than to do it yourself, particularly if you then added something, it was two lines... I might have a good laugh if I received it, but probably also cross you off the list.

I'm sorry, I would like to make you feel better, but I would judge you hard on this.

And probably share it around the office as an example of why it's so important to use AI carefully - with your personal details redacted, of course.

If you were an EXCEPTIONAL candidate, I'd still see you. But I'd take the piss mercilessly at the interview.

If I'd had loads of great candidates, I'd use it to filter you out.

I'm so sorry because I know that isn't what you want to hear.

Hopefully.

Seriously using AI is sheer laziness and shows a lack of employability.

Wouldn’t touch someone with a barge pole who used AI anywehre during the recruitment process.

And it is abundantly obvious when people do, because AI has certain phrases, certain words, certain patterns that you can spot it a mile off.

You have more important things to do than reply to a job interview? And AI is not a PA (yet) unfortunately as you found out, although a good PA would have put a pp which would also look bad!