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Everyone mass spamming their resume blindly to hundreds of positions in response to the flooded market is only making it harder for companies to sift through applications or actually read resumes.

AI is getting people past initial screen and then ghosted and the “right fit” people not even getting looked at.

It’s self fulfilling and will eventually resolve itself when the market picks up and standards are lowered. (Assuming that happens before GPT5.

If you can sit this cycle out for 6+ months and work on your own stuff or take a sabbatical you can help accelerate us out of this period of chaos.



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