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How to tell me you wrote your proposal with AI without telling me that you wrote your proposal with AI.
We would love to hear from you!
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In an alternate form:
How do you feel about proposals obviously written by AI?
My thoughts: these clients wouldn't last long when they come to test an app I create for them. Never mind giving me their requirements in their own words, or showing willing to partake in that process.
And I see an increasing amount of this unwillingness to go through any pain for their gain.
"We are seeking a talented XYZ professional to ABC."
"The ideal candidate will have a strong background in [three things which probably don't relate to the job title]."
"If you are passionate about [insert something] and have a keen eye for detail, we would love to hear from you!"
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Usually all three in the same listing, of course.
Any passion I had for [insert something] vaporizes when I see that the employer doesn't have enough passion for it, to write their own listing.
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Kelly_E "We are seeking a talented XYZ professional to ABC."
"The ideal candidate will have a strong background in [three things which probably don't relate to the job title]."
"If you are passionate about [insert something] and have a keen eye for detail, we would love to hear from you!"
And this is the kind of fluff that gets written into full time job ads for junior to mid-level employees. Shows how smart the AI is. You'd think Upwork would be able to train their job-writing bot on a set of good examples from the freelance world…
Less of the pizza friday stuff and more definition of the problem.
I don't expect clients to know anything. My typical client does not really know much about what I do or how I do it so expecting them to put out a job post that makes sense is asking a lot. Personally, I feel my industry is filled with bad job ads in general (not just in freelancing) and people who should know better focus on all the wrong things. Really what I want to know from clients is what is more about what their problems are rather than what the solutions might be.
I also will never call them employers, mindset is very important and before they are clients they are prospects.
Those phrases sound familiar from my feed on Upwork. I don't mind the blah blah as much as the fact that many close with 'Please attach samples of similar work you have completed in the past '. I mean, if it's not there in the portfolio, there is bound to be a reason why I can't share it.
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Latest thing I'm seeing is AI-written Scopes of Work in job descriptions & breakdown of implementation timeframes 🤦♂️
AI choosing technologies and setting out projects for clients, with zero time being included for requirements gathering / proper scoping / project initiation by an experienced human… a forever problem now being compounded by generative AI.