Created a robot to send work proposal and receives 43 offers

[OyaYansa]

We spend weeks decorating and adjusting our curricula but the reality is that, at least in the realm of large companies, these curricula are read by bots (computer programs) which are the ones that make a first selection. If you've been looking for a job for a long time, your resume may have been rejected more than once by a bot. Sad but true...

Robert Coomps is director of an American NGO where he no longer feels necessary, so he set out to look for new challenges. In the United States, all big companies use bots to filter candidates' curricula, so he decided to use his own weapon: to create a bot to automatically search for jobs.

Coomps is neither an engineer nor a programmer, but in his position as director of an NGO he acquired knowledge of data analysis. So I created a bot (a program) that automatically analyzed job boards, identified the required positions and the names of the contact persons (the recruiters), and sent letters and automated emails.

It created two variants: an email written and sent by him, and another similar email that the bot was in charge of filling and sending automatically:

He did not always send the same type of email, but had several variants and in some included his resume as an adjunct, in others his link to LinkedIn, etc.

The first version of his bot was too aggressive. In what had gone down to the cafeteria to have a coffee, discovered that the bot had sent its curriculum to 1300 companies.

He decided to refine it with the advice of contractors with whom he contacted. Thus, for example, he discovered that many bots give priority to the candidate having references from other companies, or to certain types of schools where he had studied.

With version 5.0 of his bot he sent 538 resumes to as many companies, both written and sent by himself, as by means of the bot. His program received more responses and more visits to LinkedIn than emails sent by him, as you can see in this graph (in purple, bot data):

For example, their emails generated 1% of visits to LinkedIn, and those of the bot, 5%.

In fact, 43 companies responded to the bot seeking employment by asking them to schedule a job interview. Robert Coomps spoke with 20 of them and confessed that they had actually contacted a bot. They were all surprised and congratulated him for his program.

After chatting with a lot of recruiters and checking the results of their experiment, he concluded that most jobs are achieved only if you have references, or acquaintances that put you in touch with the right people. In fact between 80 and 90% of the jobs are not covered by using LinkedIn, as one of the recruiters explained, but because someone has an acquaintance, or a manager knows an interesting person, and creates a position I work for her. Sending your resume or a job search bot is no better or worse when it comes to finding a job ...