Is everyone now using AI for job applications?

[june35]

I have never used AI for this purpose, but if everyone is doing it I wonder if I’ll be disadvantaged to not use it?

What puts me off is the time to put everything you need into AI, work out what you want it to do, and then edit it. I may as well just write it myself?

But if I’m missing a trick please advise!

Do people really use AI to post on mumsnet?

I don't really see your point. People using AI to write large bits of text is different to using an AI tool to filter for AI use. I don't really like either, but as you say with hundreds of applications, the latter is more understandable than the former

They should read AI generated text because in there past there were websites and books offering guides and templates?

yes because before ai some used to be omg about peoples spelling, grammer etc now people moan its ai, so round the roundabout humans go

We do not. But in my industry it would be obvious that we would expect candidates to write their own cover letters - being able to write well and clearly is a significant part of the job.

Recruiters use AI too. The whole recruitment procedure has just developed into a total farce.
Gradually over 25/30 years the process has become less about the person fit for the role/company and more about ticking certain boxes. Add AI onto that more recently.
I get it, as an employer getting rid of the wrongly recruited person is a nightmare but its like no one is actually speaking to each other anymore.
These days employers are using AI to sift and recruit and applicants are using AI to apply. Its depressingly ironic...AI talking to AI... Few are actually communicating on a human level throughout the whole process.

i think the point i was trying to make was in the past people used to have help in how to write their cv, via eg guides, websites and other people , only now modern times its chatgpt.

so i guess im trying to say is how can anyone moan about reading a cv made by ai if in the past they would have still read a cv but they would not know the difference if it was website created, book copyed or even another person wrote it for another person.

basically chatgpt is the modern version of someone else helping with your cv, so how can people complain about reading a cv thats had ai assitance yet in the past it was books and websites and other people helping create the cv.

basically unless its all you originally then chatgpt is no different than other methods used only now people moan about ai ?

if its a clear expectation of the role then i sorta understand but even the nhs when recruiting puts about either not using ai or says to say how you used it, and to dismiss someone due to soley usage of ai, seems odd when in the past people could have other people editing their cv, or copying cv templates from books or even websites offering templates.

to me chatgpt is the faster and quicker version of help that was already possible back in the past

I'm not sure how to explain to you the difference between using resources to write your application, versus getting AI to do it for you. ChatGPT is an incredibly different thing.

for me its simple :

books, chatgpt, templetes, other people = all assisting with your cv, even chatgpt you dont create nothing without copying at least your skills into it.
for example you load chatgpt you still have to use prompts, copy data into it etc

fully 100% human created cv, all original, is your own product.

im not into the mechanics of chatgpt as if that somehow twists the point im making bottom line unless you write it from start to finish etc