Senior Unity Developer Ruslan Tretyak posted a screenshot of a letter from a recruiter on LinkedIn, in which his name was intentionally omitted so that anyone else could be inserted. Here’s what the community thinks about it.
!["[name] thanks for the offer, but has to decline because he is employed by a good company.” The developer responded to the recruiter’s anonymous invitation to collaborate. IT-people crave personalized offers](/storage/images/19/41/10/62/derived/34a5017bae1eb294e6c61632f11237df.jpg "\"[name] thanks for the offer, but has to decline because he is employed by a good company.” The developer responded to the recruiter’s anonymous invitation to collaborate. IT-people crave personalized offers")
Senior Unity Developer Ruslan Tretyak posted a screenshot of a letter from a recruiter on LinkedIn, in which his name was intentionally omitted so that anyone else could be inserted. Here’s what the community thinks about it.
«Is it important to you that the job offer is personalized, or is the main thing that there is a job offer?» he asked the community.
Many IT professionals responded to Ruslan’s post.
«Given this situation, some recruiters' posts are mentioned about how, in order to attract the attention of companies, you need a personalized cover letter, write in LI, show your expertise and all that. And then you get an automated mailing list,» said Product Owner Yevhen Grishchenko.
«My level of engagement with the letter drops from the start when I see a copy-paste of a mass mailing. And it usually starts with 'Congratulations, Oleksandra!'»
Your situation and answer are the top of my personal fears. That’s why I always write all the invites manually, even though it takes a lot of time. During my work in the answers from candidates, I was Anastasia, Victoria, and Natalia. Most often Oleksandr. But my top is Volodymyr. And I still remember once an invite from a recruiter, it was also discussed a lot, when the letter to Slava in English began with Hello Slave (of course, it was a mistake, but a big mistake t9),» wrote Recruitment partner Oleksandra Mukomel.
«As funny as a meme, the situation is terrible,» commented recruitment consultant Daria Tokar.
«A recruiter once called me Anastasia in the correspondence (welcome letter), and then she changed it to Olga,» shared iGaming Affiliate Manager Stanislav Eigi.
Project manager Danylo Mamonko notes that there are still bugs, but everything is moving towards personalization as it should. «AI is a really powerful tool in the right hands. It can be used to manage things that are not related to ethics or empathy. The main thing is to find someone who can direct this power in the right direction,» he believes.
«It’s not even automation, most likely (because most likely there would be English-language tags like [name] for the bot), a person just copied some template texts from Excel, and managed to insert the person’s name instead of the placeholder. It worked. But your answer is cool,» says Mark Cemma, Unity Game Developer.
