Employers, use letters for job applications January 29, 2025
Employers, please consider removing digital job application submissions and instead require job applications to be postmarked using a physical letter.
Requiring the cover letter to be handwritten may also be prudent.
Yes, hiring can get worse
I'm happily employed, but it's possible that maybe one day I'd like to find a different place to work.
Job searching has always been Kafkaesque, but each of my forays into job exploration over the past 10 years have been progressively more Kafkaesque than the last.
Note that you could use LLMs to automate job applications since LLMs got popular, but the barrier-to-entry was fairly high. Now it's trivially low.
I predict a coming barfstorm of job applications, a freefall in hiring success in an already impossible market.
Physicality can help
On paper (🥁), letters check a lot of boxes to address the problems of LLMs:
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