Item — HN Reader

"The first thing recruiters say when they see my profile is it's very expensive"

Recruiters want talent that is close to free and Stanford / Oxbridge level of prestige and intelligence.

In the past the recruiters would just scan the school / FAANG employer and just put you on the "potential" pile to get your toe in the door in front of the other 500 applicants that applied with you.

Now today it is 1 position 2000 applicants and AI ATS systems now looking at the applications.

Why hire anyone when the recruiters and existing managers can just use GPT-5 / Grok 4 or Claude to get the job done for less than $20?

It's not just engineering or management graduates that cannot find jobs.

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“ Why hire anyone when the recruiters and existing managers can just use GPT-5 / Grok 4 or Claude to get the job done for less than $20?”

“Can just”

How to spot people who have no clue what they are talking about? They giveaway a clue when they use those two words :-)

Just because you are unable to think of an answer or critically think, doesn’t invalidate my point and the fact that the job market is brutal for entry level and those looking for jobs.

It is a valid point that every recruiter, manager, entrepreneur and founder is thinking about.

Has anyone here ever sandbagged their resume on purpose? Is that something people do? Try to present oneself as just right for an entry level marketing manager role when, in reality, one has already been at the Director / VP level?

Sort of a "get the job by any means necessary" strategy.