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by samstave 902 days ago
>>>people we reject aren’t getting rejected because they aren’t a good fit or lack skills - it’s just that someone else was a little better.

This is one of the most disheartening negative impacts for looking for work when you have decades of success in your career:

"We appreciate you applying, but we found others who are better than you. Thank anyway, loser"

These emails, are lose-lose-lose; You lose by getting the email, you lose by the feeling it imbues, you lose because you dont have RHFL to your actions.

I would like a reverse RHFL - an AIRHL (which is what AI is meant to do) (AI Reinforced Human Learning)

Dont tell me I am rejected, I want to know where to improve...

This would be a wonderful triage app for AI going forward - is just a site such as linkedin, should have a GPT that reads your profile/CV and just constantly asks you Continuous Education questions, and gives you credits for answering correctly, and builds training modules for you...

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I don't give this kind of feedback unprompted unless it's asked for by the candidate in which case I will happily oblige. But early in my career I would do this by default the first few times until someone screamed "F--- YOU" and hung up the phone at which point I decided its best to just let people ask instead of giving it out freely.
Yeah, I suppose thats true for the 'givers of advice'.... It just sucks not knowing what one may be doing wrong, which is why I mentioned that an GPT will eventually be a good trainer bot.