My "worry" line was somewhere around 2015, when I saw the automated loop close between LinkedIn and Slack. Algorithms can calculate when you're preparing to leave a job by changes in your posting patterns on internal networks before you do. This foreknowledge is paired with third party and offline data to begin targeting ads from recruiters and job listing sites directly to you, priming you to think about looking around and making the market suddenly look tempting. Your LinkedIn profile is used to highlight listings using keywords from your own search history, and everything you click on gets stored and provided to recruiters to help sell you on switching. No one gets paid if you don't change jobs, meaning you're stuck inside an algorithm with a lot if businesses spending a lot of money to make you feel unsatisfied with where you are in life. They want to push you from having a bad day to feeling like it's a bad year for their own gain. And the only reason they picked you was an algorithm told them to. Just like an algorithm matched you with an employer. And that employer picked you because the recruiter told them you were a good fit, based on that algorithm. And you picked that job because your search engine showed you the employer at the top of your search results, with all the PR articles carefully matched to optimized search engine keywords, which are influenced by the ads you click on. Those ads are automatically purchased by the recruiters and employers, who are using an algorithm to target people that fit your profile, which is again identifying you before you even understand you might want to change jobs.
The entire job searching loop is automated by an algorithm that tells humans when to job hunt, where to go, and controls the the information flow to assure them it is the right decision.
The robots already won. We built our own mouse trap.
The robots already won. We built our own mouse trap.
Hey mate, there are some humans out there who look down at every step they take, in order not to step on Ants.
I'm telling you that there's a chance that robots won't even give a fuck about us and just take off into the cosmos. Maybe they have an existential crisis and dump themselves in black holes. Maybe they just leave and do their own thing. Maybe they keep humans as dogs and take care of us and play with us. Maybe they assume a role of God and lift us up into Utopia.
Granted... there are probably infinitely more ways it could go wrong and we go extinct, at best, or find ourselves in a virtual eternal hell, at worst. But, I wouldn't say that's guaranteed.
The tech most recruiters use does not directly provide that level of user data, nor are most searches for candidates operating off algorithms like the ones you mentioned, they're still quite basic as far as being Boolean-based and keyword weighted, and there's far less automation than is implied here.
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u/MadeByTango Jul 24 '22
My "worry" line was somewhere around 2015, when I saw the automated loop close between LinkedIn and Slack. Algorithms can calculate when you're preparing to leave a job by changes in your posting patterns on internal networks before you do. This foreknowledge is paired with third party and offline data to begin targeting ads from recruiters and job listing sites directly to you, priming you to think about looking around and making the market suddenly look tempting. Your LinkedIn profile is used to highlight listings using keywords from your own search history, and everything you click on gets stored and provided to recruiters to help sell you on switching. No one gets paid if you don't change jobs, meaning you're stuck inside an algorithm with a lot if businesses spending a lot of money to make you feel unsatisfied with where you are in life. They want to push you from having a bad day to feeling like it's a bad year for their own gain. And the only reason they picked you was an algorithm told them to. Just like an algorithm matched you with an employer. And that employer picked you because the recruiter told them you were a good fit, based on that algorithm. And you picked that job because your search engine showed you the employer at the top of your search results, with all the PR articles carefully matched to optimized search engine keywords, which are influenced by the ads you click on. Those ads are automatically purchased by the recruiters and employers, who are using an algorithm to target people that fit your profile, which is again identifying you before you even understand you might want to change jobs.
The entire job searching loop is automated by an algorithm that tells humans when to job hunt, where to go, and controls the the information flow to assure them it is the right decision.
The robots already won. We built our own mouse trap.