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[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 27 points 3 months ago

I'm unemployed. A few years ago, the Finnish government introduced a requirement that all job seekers must submit up to 4 applications per month. (This was stupid from both the applicant and recruitment perspective. They did this anyway. Oh, companies just get swamped by applications? :surprised_pikachu:)

Then I started hearing news that major companies are screening applications based on AI analysis. And then I attended one job applicant event where one of the sessions was literally "using ChatGPT to write a cover letter".

I'm in software development. I don't expect to be employed again anytime soon. (Unless I bullshit my way to some AI job using ChatGPT, but hey, I have a few vestiges of morality left.)

[-] nyamlae@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Why is the government mandating how many applications you submit? Was this in order to be eligible for unemployment pay?

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yup. In theory, it's a program to gently kick the job applicants to apply for more jobs, which sounds like a good thing. In practice, it's yet another way for the authorities to breathe down the neck of job applicants to document the busywork they're already doing, and make sure they're doing nothing productive besides sitting by their phones and waiting for calls (that probably never come because you just annoyed every potential employer by spamming them with applications).

Several years ago, Finnish authorities did another experiment. Universal basic income for a few lucky recipients! People who participated in this couldn't believe how awesome it was to freely engage in a bunch of modern freelancing options that the unemployment benefits program just straight up banned. I hear it was awesome while it lasted. Now, they decided to do this mandatory application bullshit for the rest of the unemployed populace. I'm hoping they got all of the data on which of the options was more productive, because from my point of view, this hasn't been it!

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

Damn. In the US it's totally normalized now to just spam hundreds of job applications per month to hopefully hear back from maybe one of them

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

I'd struggle to name one single thing I envy Americans for. It seems like the US is exactly what I don't want mine to become.

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