Finger In The Dike

As the remaining days in November count themselves down, I’m trying to keep busy and explore all options to find a salaried job. As social media is trumpeting everywhere, now that the algorithms know I’m looking, it’s a brutal market. Talking with my brother-in-law, a recruiter based in Kansas City, I asked what I might be doing wrong, and he told me I wasn’t making any mistakes—it’s just that the bots are the gatekeepers and it takes an Act Of God to get through to a human, in a time when recruiters are getting flooded by hundreds of applicants in a single day. So I decided to put the bots to work for me and set up a trial plan with ChatGPT so that I could create an agent. The idea is to have it look at a list of job aggregators, other NGO’s careers pages, and industry websites every morning to find new listings, compare them to the skills and experience on my resume, rank them, and set up a draft cover letter I can then rewrite as a human being. From what I’m being told, being among…

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