I’m looking for something that takes a CV (e.g. md, pdf, odt, whatever) and a site to the job post as inputs and outputs a CV that is tailored to the requirements listed in that job post, without significantly changing the CV in some way…
I know that LLMs would be best used for such a problem, but the issue is that I don’t have such a beefy computer to run an LLM locally… Maybe there’s something out there that doesn’t use an LLM? Anything that helps with applying and making sure that the CV is attractive enough to your average ATS, honestly.
To your first point, yes. Some idiot twenty years ago said to a bunch of guidance counselors that software engineering would be a sure way to get money, so there’s way too many in the US; on top of this companies don’t want to pay even close to a living wage so they import H1Bs. Competition is ridiculous.
To your second point and exacerbating the first… Every company, practically, uses AI screening software, and before that just plain old applicant screening software. Your resume won’t get seen by a human unless you’re lucky enough to get through the layers of screening, so it’s an arms race to guess what they’re screening for and add that to your resume while not exaggerating too much so as to make the human after the screening process to not throw away your resume.
And at the end of this; especially in software but more and more in less specialized, less skilled positions, you have to still do 3+ interviews.
Sounds really tough in the USA. We have plenty of Software Devs here too but we also get a lot of skilled migrants, it is basically the only way to get permanent residency without handing over a lot of money.
3+ interviews sounds like a great way to waste money and time doing interviews. When I am hiring I would never do more than 1, if I am not happy to hire or 100% sure, I don’t do a second I just move on to the next applicant.