Know your market and margins in and out, arm yourself with the nitty gritty of the role, give it a stab, and go for it. You at least got a number to work with.
Handshake, to me in this sitch, is an agreement to negotiate a raise. Until its on paper, don't count your chickens. Something to also keep in mind is, that a handshake still means something and is the honorable thing to do.
The pitches don't bother me - good or bad - its more the profiles with one name or just the blatant disregard of a no or no thank you.
The bad ones actually help reinforce what not to do. After all we are in a Sellers/GTM group!
I wouldn't take the time to learn every tool a person claims to know - especially if I don't use those tools.
Its pretty common for JD's to list the tools being used.
I can confidently say that when I ask "Which SLM/LLM are you using?" and then someone goes "Cursor!" that they will not make it through.
I am abnormal in the fact that I will really go out of my way to meet people in the middle by working hard to talk to them, try to understand them so they are heard and make that value judgment myself. Those lil extras still matter to me. #mainer
What I am saying its on both - hiring teams and applicant. Hiring teams cant honestly expect great applications if the job postings lack context, not check their work either and aren't involved in learning how this AI use case actually works when implemented. Hiring and HR have a plethora of tools and assessments as it is plus the majority of applicants have degrees (that are required).
It's reasonable to argue that its not possible to get a good data set if both ends of the equation are flawed. I mean the best way to validate would be to just pick up the phone, no?
Another option would be to just have the candidate show you on a call (or in person) how they use it.
I think diligence matters; Lara D. I put the onus on the user for that. If someone doesn't want to check their work thats an individuals issue. As it pertains to ATS leveraging Ai - that comes down to understanding what the context actually means when implmenting- you know, Plato.
I kind of see throwing on AI for the sake of throwing AI on as the same as putting a spark plug in with out learning to gap it correctly.
I think there's a huge difference around of how someone uses genAI. I would argue prompt work is just one piece of the puzzle that gets you in the door. So I look for more than just "I can prompt" when talking to others.
I will be opening a role soon and have been thinking about this question alot.
