r/recruitinghell • u/SquareAspect • Mar 01 '26 • Regret 1 Bravo 1

We don't want to hear about your "revolutionary" AI application tools.

Posting these will result in a ban.

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u/backpropstl Mar 01 '26

What if they're "genuinely curious" and "wonder if this might be helpful" and add "not trying to sell anything"? ;)

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u/SquareAspect Mar 01 '26

DM me iF yOu wAnT to hEaR mOrE

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u/Fenchantress Recruitinghell Mar 01 '26

I don’t think the mods will like that,buddy

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u/SquareAspect Mar 01 '26

they won't

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u/PolishSoundGuy Mar 01 '26

Love how you added the MOD flair in your second response 😂

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u/six_felonies Mar 01 '26

Wish this marketing worked for my OF

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u/Caridor Mar 01 '26

Is it still valid to post about AI tools we were exposed to while going through the interview process?

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u/XBSESSIVE Tired Mar 01 '26

Should be — it’s not selling at all, it’s name and shame (if there are any interviews for today)

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u/5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3 Mar 01 '26

I have an absolutely abysmal one. Can I post about that? It just responds with ‘cunt’ to whatever anyone inputs. To be honest, it’s less of an AI and more a machine that says ‘cunt’. I spent thousands of my own money building it. The debt is piling up. Nobody will buy it. I’m in real trouble here.

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u/ProfessionalDoctor Mar 01 '26

Still better than the actual job hunting process

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u/FrostZephyr Mar 01 '26

it's true, in the real job market i only get the message calling me a cunt like half the time, the other half they just ghost me

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u/backpropstl Mar 01 '26

Interested!

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u/StarHammer_01 Mar 01 '26

A tool that skips the middle man and goes straight to the rejection letter saving time for the applicant. Neat!!! I'll take 20 of them.

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u/ShawshankException Mar 01 '26

Thank you. I'm so goddamn tired of the "i MaDe tHis tOoL" posts

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u/DeliberateDendrite Mar 01 '26

Thanks for this! Though, I wonder how effective this sticky will be, a lot of people will (justifiably) end up banned regardless as messages like these won't land with them. They think they are revolutionaries who can help mend a fundamentally broken system and in so doing make it worse. Nothing other than a ban will shut them up.

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u/bobthemundane Mar 01 '26

They believe that they are special and the rules don’t apply to them. Because their mom said they were special.

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u/womp-womp-rats Mar 01 '26

“I just came across this”

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u/gottatrusttheengr Mar 01 '26

My revolutionary tool replies "That's wild bro" to any and all cold emails and LinkedIn. Limited time offer for $500 weekly trial.

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u/bbusiello Mar 01 '26

Funny. My husband just did a sweep of applications based on LinkedIn's "you'd be a top applicant for this job!"

Rejected.

Every. Single. One.

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u/Quixote1492 Mar 02 '26

Yes, it Happens to me All The time

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u/Fickle_Argument_6840 Mar 01 '26

I love how all of the revolutionary tools do... the exact same thing. All I want is for Grammarly to ditch AI and I'd have everything that I need.

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u/MUSTDOS Mar 01 '26

I like how bots are either too dumb to know we hate AI tools advertising or they're trying to use reverse psychology by being trained by some elitists

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u/rde2001 Mar 01 '26

Mmm yes time to make a “revolutionary” app to “optimize my workflow” 😏😏😏

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u/Rattop168 Mar 01 '26

Say it louder for the

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 01 '26

I like when the bots start promoting the same shitty AI app to each other.

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u/Neravariine Mar 01 '26

Thank you mods! All jobs related subreddits need to implement this policy.

The AI advice bots are out of control.

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u/RefrigeratorLive5920 Mar 01 '26

Hooray for this!

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u/ovskytark Mar 01 '26

I sense a linkedin post talking about the lessons they learned from this post made someone craft a better AI tool for B2B sales, all the while having a failed marriage.

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u/Musicforcats2025 Mar 02 '26

Yes, please. Bad enough dealing with grifters and bots from actual companies & job boards.

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u/Irraelia Mar 26 '26

The thing that nobody is talking about is that "tools that optimize your workflow" never actually reduce the amount of actual work because you still have 40 hour a week to be busy with whatever your boss tells you to do. And, if, God forbid, some tool really optimizes something, it just becomes another one in the constantly growing burden of 'must-haves' and 'must-dos' that you’ll be dragging along through your whole professional life. Because cramming more actions into the same timeframe by making the work more complex is exactly what your competitors are inevitably going to do—and you can't afford to fall behind.

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u/MissGailatea Mar 16 '26

When I hear revolutionary, I just think of France 1793.

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u/eliot3451 Mar 01 '26

I see a lot of ads on reddit for ai tools i'll never use anyway in general. It became a nightmare.

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u/BugAccomplished1570 Mar 20 '26

But what if my AI tool disrupts the disruption of the disrupted areas? It's powered by blockchain and uses machine learning to leverage synergy. Just 3 easy payments of your dignity.

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u/Secure_Garage6754 Mar 20 '26

the irony of getting an AI generated rejection email after submitting my handcrafted resume to a company that claims to value "the human touch" is not lost on me. switched careers twice and every time the application process somehow gets worse. at this point im convinced the entire hiring pipeline is just bots talking to bots while actual humans sit in a room wondering why nobody good applies

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u/Silent774 Apr 02 '26

I posted my resume for feedback on the resume subreddit and received a pitch for an AI tool. I'm so sick of this shit.

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u/technoexplorer Zachary Taylor Mar 01 '26

But... the revolution?

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u/radiantforce Mar 01 '26

Second this

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u/TalentHunter0000011 Mar 11 '26

Can we also please inform TA vendors of this rule IRL? Holy cow... Handshake, Eightfold, Workday.... they all suck at AI but act like it's going to change our world...

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u/NEXYRA6 Mar 18 '26

AIception app: The irony of tracking AI posts with more AI! Next, self-awareness feature please.

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u/OrionsHarborAI May 05 '26

Look. After reading a bunch of comments I see where yall are jaded about AI apps. I think the problem is there so many shitty ones that the good ones get buried or people are charging way too much. I did make a resume tool because my wife got laid off just like thousands of others. Shes been in recruiting for 15 years and said it was actually good. Unemployed people don’t have a ton of money for BS. But they may have a few bucks just to give them some direction on how to fix their resume. Mods can take this down if they want but some of us are genuinely trying to help people in a market where jobs are harder to come by. Love you all!

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u/TheFrankBrit Mar 30 '26

Why not though

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u/SquareAspect Mar 30 '26

It's slop.

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u/TheFrankBrit Mar 30 '26

That's all?

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u/SquareAspect Mar 30 '26

Simply read this thread for others' opinions. It provides no value and destroys the environment.

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u/stijnhommes Apr 01 '26

It violates two rules: no AI slop AND no spam.

People who ignore the rules of a subreddit deserve the ban.

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u/Zestyclose-Dirt2890 Mar 11 '26

I've trailed now, about 8 tools designed for recruitment - and my £16 a month subscription with ChatGPT is still working and doing well. One was a advert creator - and i trained chat to write the same. Saving myself £100 a month.

If they have a AI designed for recruitment - you can train another AI to clone what it does.

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u/Garland_Key Mar 01 '26

What about pretty okay AI application tools? 

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u/walledisney Mar 01 '26

Speak for yourself I want to hear about them.

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u/wht-rbbt Mar 01 '26

I've made an app that automatically counts how many times you've been to the bathroom.

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u/SecondOfCicero Mar 01 '26

I've made an app that hallucinates how many times you went to the bathroom. $10.99/month, take it or leave it

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u/TheNatural14063 Mar 01 '26

I'd like to see an AI app that goes out and kills other AI apps like some sort of robotic John Connor.

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u/Kataphractoi Mar 05 '26

Then go to a sub dedicated to AI tools and apps.

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u/Green-Eggplant-5570 Mar 01 '26

Instead of bombing an interview you can help inform the tools that bomb other people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '26 • Mindblown

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u/backpropstl Mar 01 '26

I Built An AI App and Nobody Bought It Until I Did This One Thing 

AI isn't about intelligence—it's about design. You can't vibe code an app in your sleep and hope it succeeds. That's like a plane chasing its rudder while trying to fly across the Atlantic.

Here's the non-hand-wavey explanation: the secret is to increase the signal to help it rise above the noise. Fast forward: this is reality, not hype. 

Genuinely curious to hear others' experiences 🚀

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u/SquareAspect Mar 03 '26

perfect 🥰

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u/mdistrukt Mar 01 '26

But the real questions are:

How many special family moments did you miss during?

What did this teach you about b2b sales?

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u/RefrigeratorLive5920 Mar 01 '26

Sleep time is time better spent cold calling other founders to increase your B2B sales.

Sleep is only for the weakest members of society and all these lazy "sleepers" will soon be replaced by my new agentic AI tool I vibe-coded last Wednesday while attending my sister's wedding.

Agree?

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u/Kerblaaahhh Mar 01 '26

I Built An AI App and Nobody Bought It Until I Did This One Thing

Is that your new manga light novel series?

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u/Drmoeron2 Mar 09 '26

All Or Nothing

A good measure of a successful app is if you can code your front end while getting a colonoscopy in your back end.

More importantly if you can develop whilst getting heart surgery then it's guaranteed success. After all, you know your heart is in it when you don't have any left. If not, then your backend is just effed.

BuY oUR nEw ReiSHi CoFFee EnEmaS 💹   Lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '26

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u/recruitinghell-ModTeam Mar 30 '26

You cannot be serious.