ai and ml

Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project

Combing through job postings and company help wanted pages for a position that matches your resume is the very definition of drudge work. Now, there's an AI designed to suck up information from the web, do the search for you, and even help you apply.Software developer Tarun Gupta created just such a tool in the form of Autopilot-Jobhunt. When configured with a profile of the user and their desired jobs (and what they absolutely won’t accept in an opening), A-J will scan the web while users sleep, take stock of the positions that are a good match, and then send a Telegram message to its user. That message includes all matching openings, scored against the user's resume and ranked according to the AI's assessment. Users can ask A-J to format a resume and cover letter tailored to the position, which it’s up to the user to review and send - the bot won’t do so automatically.

You might be thinking that an AI-crafted resume and cover letter would be a bad strategy for getting your foot in the door at a company you’re keen to work for, but that might not be the case, actually. As we reported last year, researchers found that some AI hiring bots, often the first line a company uses to separate the wheat from the chaff, favored applications generated by the same AI model they used for screening - suggesting the human touch may be worth less than you think in the modern job market.