u/TECHLUXE — reddlx

An AI generated resume is NOT the silver bullet

I had two interviews last Friday and earlier this week for two roles; Director and a VP role. Both companies are planning to deploy Workday both are rather late to the party. After summarizing my experience, the recruiters both expressed awe at my credentials and my ability to drive the conversation. They also both commented that my FOUR page CV stood out amongst the hundreds received. In fact, the recruiter for the VP role motioned that she breathed a sigh of relief, and cozied up to digest my experience. She commented that she was fatigued by all the AI CVs with the same format and talk-speak. The first recruiter who I met last friday - extended our 30 minute interview to an 1.15 hours and then immediately put me in front of the hiring manager Monday afternoon. She expressed exhaustion that she cannot find the right candidate. The recruiter I met with this week is sorting my interview with the hiring manager for next week. She too extended our 25 min. interview to 45 mins. After praising my resume and blah, blah, blah, I explained that my CV is AI free.

I'm not here to promote my CV, more to the point - a one page, cookie cutter AI resume may not be the ticket. I always feel that no human, or BOT can represent me and what I bring to the table better than I can.

Update...
I thought perhaps I should share and example. Note that this is intentionally NOT scrubbed!

Introductory Page of my CV (1 of 4)

Best in your search...

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u/TECHLUXE — 7 days ago

▲ 0 r/Employment

Post Interview Thank you Email - [NJ/NY]

I have been promising to share this doc. since I finally secured a job 5 months back. Here is the backdrop :

https://www.reddit.com/r/interviews/s/pE2AXt7bKK

Below is an excerpt:

Email Subject: Thank you – “Head of Global XXX” (insert role title) Interview - [Applicant Name]

Good morning, "Hiring Manager"

Thank you for the opportunity to explore the “XXX role” (insert role title) with “ABC Company”. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting with you and the entire team; it was great to learn more about this pivotal position and the long-term vision that encompasses crossfunctional team collaboration, communications, leadership, and employee experience.

Post Interview Email

I hope it helps!

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u/TECHLUXE — 3 months ago

▲ 21 r/WigSnatchersHQ

RPGSHOW? NOPE

Welp, I think I'm finally done with online Wig buying! RPGShow was my last go at this. I was suspicious since I could find NO product reviews on their own website and very few on FB, IG, YT, and TT. Most if any reviews from this company are from Wig Influencers, which are useless if you are looking for honesty.

About Me: I have had alopecia universalis for 45 years now. Back then there was No community, No online vendors because there was NO internet, and alopecia was also very, very rare. Wigs were worn by grandmas only. Local stores only sold synthetic wigs. Most of my wigs were custom from NYC/Brooklyn. On the average EUROPEAN hair and hiqh quality Human Hair wigs cost between $4.5k-$10k (1990s-2018). What this means is I only understood high quality wigs. Period!

I started buying wigs online during covid. I had no choice - there was a hair shortage, and by then my vendors had mostly ceased to exist. At this point, there are now fewer vendors who support custom, or near custom wigs. EU, and 100 HQ human hair has doubled in price $10k-$20k++!

I first shopped OL at OMGQUEEN.COM they were ok, but they dont have much variety. I then turned to Hairvivi, and wasted thousands and thousands of $mo on their garbage wigs and a plumber @$600. Mostly because I continued to be influenced by the influenecers. I then purchased two wigs from HairQueen LA @$1600 a unit. I found there shop whilst I was in Miami. The first wig was 6.5 score on my scale of 1-10. I ordered the same exact unit 6 months later via phone, and she arrived as a dry, frizzy mess - another $1600 - but this time in the toilette! My last attempt at OL wig shopping was RPGSHOW a month ago. I was impressed with their virtual try-on method. I searched for reviews, and could only find one from a WI for the unit I chose. I pulled the trigger, and quickly learned that there is only ONE CS person that engages with customers. So the response time is pitiful. I asked for photos prior to shipping the unit (OMGQueen thoughtful does this) but of course she took too long to respond so the order was shipped without my seeing the wig first. I'm suspicious that she just ignored my request. They also take at least 1.5+ weeks to ship orders because they seem to dye all their wigs based upon each order - no matter the color requested - which makes no sense to me. Why does Auburn Brown and Natural color both require a dye job. They also do not follow directions and included hair combs in the cap. What does an alopecia gurl have to do with wig combs? I specifically stated no combs. Lastly, they ship from China via FedEx which takes three times longer than DHL.

Finally, I received the wig, and immediately ran water through it to judge the hair quality without the styling. Because they dyed the wig the hair quality was like straw. I gently combed it and it immediately started to break! Cmon! I took photos, sent them to the only CS human that works there and waited. I was then forced to return the wig at my own expense. I have never incurred shipping costs for a wig return. Not ever! Between the shipping (including addl. insurance) it cost me $40 + Tariffs + $599 for inferior hair quality wig, that does not look to be auburn brown, and included hair combs. All in all - complete waste of time, and money!

But for the bangs, I was 💯 underwhelmed by RPGSHOW!

Nope!

Done!

u/TECHLUXE — 3 months ago

▲ 2 r/Employment

Not exactly stunning news but it is yet another Lesson in the "Emperor has no clothes!" Dont get me wrong, I fully support AI adoption to replace redundant administrative tasks and improve ways of working. However, it is folly for company driven AI initiatives to go all-in by exiting humans (including AI Engineers) - whilst incurring massive annual capital expenditures (31B+) on data centers and hardware. Prematurely, supplanting humans with AI has resulted in failures hitherto undreamtof - data losses, system failures, Workflow misalignment etc which add to the overall cost burden. MIT Reported that 95% of company driven AI initiatives fail to turn a profit. Indeed!

Wait for it!

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/nvidia-vp-says-it-costs-more-to-use-ai-than-to-hire-humans

u/TECHLUXE — 5 months ago