Revenge Of The Nerds
Real Revenge
No not this from 40 years ago (feel old?)
I just posted this to my blog - but decided it was worth a wider share. It’s very ‘People Firsty’ - the solution is not for everyone - but it points the way towards how power might be wrested from Corporates back to ‘the people’. What do you think?Back a few years ago - I raised the idea that 🖇️ ATS systems should just be banned.. Nothing changed.
Side Note - an ‘ATS’ is an Application Tracking System - those fiendish digital gateways that Corporates have erected between people that want to work with other people in that company. Yes. Counterintuitive - but that is what they are doing. And it is getting worse.
Then I found this clip from The Monkees TV show that aired in the late 60s … 🖇️ The Monkees Predicting ATS software THIRTY YEARS before it appeared.Yes - 30 years is right - that’s when these things started to appear.
Of course in the intermediate time - they have just got better worse.
Even to the point of AI 🖇️ Avatars Doing Job Interviews
I agree - you cannot make this stuff up!
A lot of my objections about so much of this tech is that it;
ends up in corporate hands
is misused
is badly misused
is extremely and badly abused
… and all the time never does anyone build a similar system for people. AND corporates don’t end up recruiting the best people for reasons like;
the best people ‘don’t have time for that’
the best people want to work with the best people - not bots
the best people don’t tune their resumes to be Keyword and SEO compliant - necessary if you stand any chance of an ATS letting you through its gates
Until now. Brilliant …. The new story is from 404 Media. I haven’t checked but - does this tickle your fancy? It does mine …
🔗 The solution is sitting in github so I am not qualified to comment on how well this works - but I have friends and I will be reaching out.
Of course corporate HR is going to declare ‘no fair’ because their systems are going to be swamped … too bad.
I presume that someone is going to fork the code and use it to apply for contracts .. and it wont be long before their AIs contact someone on Amazon Turk and convince them to register and sign on (on their behalf) for Job Boards and Recruiter sites - so we can do the same thing there. (Of course it won’t be long before the AIs can sign in for themselves - I mean if bots are allowed to join human dialogues in social media - why shouldn’t they be able to sign on to systems - or is this a similar argument to you can join the army and get killed years before you are allowed to drink?
We know that the retaliation is going to happen - example case - someone inside the company uses their brains and writes code to get their 5 day job done in 2 to 4 hours - and then take a second job - repeat - and a third job - repeat … what do you think the corporate does when they find out? Promote them?
My prediction - they will work out how to block this access.
Let the battle begin.
