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Someone should build an engineer-matchmaking service with a fresh revenue model that can challenge LinkedIn, whose platform is now so heavily optimized for profit-taking that it leaves both employer and job searcher unsatisfied.

Using LLMs to write your applications is a sound idea. But why not have a platform do this for everyone in the equation? I would much rather - as a hiring manager - put my qualifications into a service and have it automatically and intelligently find great candidates, than dig through 1,000 ChatGPT-customized cover letters with yet another LLM cover letter bot…

Seems stupid to not put something in the middle that the employers pay for that automates both sides of the market to everyone’s benefit.




All platforms like that have failed because fundamentally companies don't trust others with hiring, unless you can very quickly get rid of someone (body leasing).




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