Sending CVs and emails to recruitment agencies achieves about as much as redirecting stdout to /dev/null and expecting any response: It's an exercise in futility. Call me old-fashioned if you will, but I prefer to deal with actual humans (fallible though we are), rather than computers and algorithms, in certain situations. Finding the means by which I earn my living is one of them. In that regard, I'm pretty much on my own and have to rely on older means of achieving that. Prioritising antisocial media might be my best bet, as much as I don't like admitting that.
While I realise that AI and automation have their place in certain specific areas where they are useful and perform optimally, I also know enough to know they're not the all-in-one, one-size-fits-all panacea solution the hype around them makes them out to be. It seems to me that AI is the new snake oil being pushed by hungry/greedy cash-grabbers jumping on the AI bandwagon.
Having worked in software and Web development for over a decade, I know a thing or two about the nature of the industry. I'm not so easily fooled or inclined to be caught up in hype. Machines will not replace us. Not for another fifty years, anyway. By that time, I hope to be long dead. Until then, I've got employment to find, even if it means walking the town on foot and knocking on doors.
Thumbnail image by Monstera on Pexels
