[waboremo]

Beyond the general idea of incorporating chatGPT into usual work; IMO, chatGPT is highlighting all of the biggest sore spots of the hiring process and instead of finding solutions we're just digging our heads further into the sands.

Job descriptions, resumes, cover letters, filling out forms, writing boilerplate for take home projects, etc. All of these are massive problems in the hiring process, and should be addressed before the entire thing turns into a complete nonsensical clown fest of nobody reading anything unless they're face to face with somebody.

So much of these things are just leftovers from the old days, we demand a resume not because it's an accurate assessment of history or skill but because "it's tradition". We write job descriptions not based on accurate demands of the job, but to fit in as many keywords as possible in hopes your ideal candidate doesn't miss it. List goes on, but really we can't start addressing these until we admit there's a serious problem - and this time not just relying on Google to maybe come up with something new.

[loa_in_]

As I understand work, an unfilled company job has a

    total normalised workload: w


    c  requirements: r_c(person skill_c, time)

    number of positions to fill: n


    where

        time[now, infinity] integrated:

            sum over i:= 1 to c:

                involvement of person ×

                r_i(person skill_i)

        = w


    (solving for total involvement × requirement = total normalised workload,

    because it's a boundary of inequality (>=100% of w))

That is applicable to set of all living people at the moment L

    finds out about posting: A subset of L

    would accept: B subset of L


    beta(person) := how much of required workload will this person fill after integrating their (involvement x requirement) over their time there


     time: 0 to inf (now until end of the universe)

     involvement(t): -inf to inf (work units)

     requirement_i(t): [0, 1] (in units inverse to work units)


     (a capable and willing person who's not conscious will have involvement=0,

     someone who only would work on weekends for a place that's closed on weekends will have person skill_attendance>0 on weekends, but requirement_attendance>0 only on workdays, a disjoint set)


    a person with beta=1 fills the position until the position ceases to exist

    basically nobody has beta=1, that happens probably only if trade becomes obsolete or position is e.g. to paint a specific room)


    remaining workload after parting ways (company closed, person dead and/or universe ended): 

    w_r = w - beta(w)

    if w_r = 0 then they never have to hire anyone for this position ever again

    otherwise the hiring process repeats with w=w_r

Here, there's a start to formalizing the problem if someone is willing to look into this. It's my half an hour armchair take on this, because I figured it is all I can do. even if it's not anything at all, I tried and enjoyed the process.

I think my main point is, hiring processess seem to be very far from addressing the basic parameters of actual process of working somewhere in my view.

Let's get GPT-4 onto this maybe