Jess Kelly

either through your company or off your own bat, engaged in some further education or further upskilling, you're more of an asset and you're showing, as you said, those kind of softer skills of a bit of cop-on and initiative.

It's a more attractive prospect for a potential employer.

Yeah, no, for sure.

And I'm a huge advocate for it again, just for expanding your own horizons and keeping yourself engaged and your brain engaged and all the rest.

And I want to talk a little bit about the job application process, because I know a few people who are going through it at the moment.

They're kind of sniffing out opportunities.

They're spending a huge amount of time looking at really motivational, inspirational posts on LinkedIn by companies who are announcing hires online.

They then submit applications on the form that's suggested on these platforms and then getting auto replies within six seconds saying no.

And it's clearly some form of AI auto rejection.

What exactly is going on?

And is this something, though, that companies need to be careful of?

Because I've been talking to one person in particular who's going through this at the moment, and they're seeing AI being utilized in a few different ways, not only the auto rejection, but in a few different ways.

And they've actually walked away from one process because it feels so like there's a lack of authenticity and humanity.

And it just gives you this bad vibe about a company from the offset if they can't even be asked to connect with somebody who's taken the time to send an application.

No, absolutely not.

Right, so let's end where we started, which is with meta and this notion of the AI washing.

For the people who are unfortunately impacted by this, what is the advice in terms of them, firstly, accepting what's happening, then trying to pick themselves back up and get back into the job market?

Because if one of the biggest tech companies in the world is saying, you know what, you're not needed here anymore.

It can be a serious, I suppose, crisis of confidence, I suppose, to then re-emerge and sell your story and your skill set and your experience to a new potential employer.

Okay, great stuff.