I find it amusing that they tried to automate it with variables, etc, but seemingly wanted to make LLM generate a new response every time. Standard once written or even generated rejection form could've been more economically sound. But, but - then you wouldn't up the metrics of AI usage in your department!

Also email templates are a solved problem, there is like no reason to use AI for this

"Please generate an AI prompt for a polite rejection message for a candidate that wasn't picked"

I think the prompt might have been set up for like 1000 people, though.

Tepid regards

If it’s a canned response, why not just do it yourself? It’d take like 5 minutes. Oh, those skills are rotting because AI? Yeah.

I see this a lot. I got brought into a project where the entire CI/CD was a prompt.

Who's to say this isn't ai's best effort?

Reminds me of how "The Man from Mars" (by Stanisław Lem) finally understand what humor was about. Look at most jokes ignoring the humor and you find be an endless stream of tragedies.

Why not ghost the candidate which seems to be the most normal response these days for some reason

The whole point is they don't care enough about you, the candiate, to put a human in the loop.

Just don't use ai

This place has devolved into just images some may find mildly entertaining.

I don’t know, I think I’d rather be ghosted

It doesn't even need to be personal. Just send them a notification notice. Nothing about this has to be personalized, it's already going to their email. Anything more and it's just bs. Even the notification of rejection email is already kinda bs because when you never hear back, you know you've been rejected, and the email itself is a functional courtesy. It could literally just be:

Email:

From: company@company.org

To: you

Subject: jobname application rejection date

Body: none

The AI is meant to create the message contents here

And providing a link to the wrong Wikipedia page as he's insulting people lmao

Downvotes could be about censoring the company name instead of exposing them.

A simple fuck off will suffice too

HR departments get flooded with AI generated applications by the truckload making automating rejections the only viable way to keep up

That goes both ways. Employers have been auto rejecting applicants for years, so applicants have shifted to automating applications.

Why should someone looking for a job take the time to craft an application, when it gets rejected without a person ever actually looking at it.

Last time I went job hunting (2yrs ago), I got a response from less than 1% of the jobs I applied to.

You're making it sound like it was the applicant foult while the recruting proces was broken years before AI became common.

Also in the recruitment process HR is the professional while a applicant is amateur. The burden should be primarily on them.