The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail
5 hours ago
- The author describes a new type of recruiter email that uses LLMs to generate a personalized first paragraph referencing the candidate's experience, but then follows with a job description that has little to do with that experience.
- The first paragraph feels like it was generated by an LLM, and the job description itself may also be LLM-generated, leading to a mismatch.
- The author provides examples of such emails that ironically highlight the lack of true personalization and relevance.
- The key difference between these and traditional templated emails is that these are 'personalized' with zero connection to the job description and are very obviously LLM text, which insults the recipient's intelligence.
- The author suggests that an LLM could be used to actually check if a candidate is a fit, but recruiters likely avoid that because it would reveal mismatches.
- The abundance of common 'LLMisms' in the job description makes these emails worse than simple templates.