the shift in hiring is very interesting. we’ve been through algorithms which filter out resumes from the pool based on what the company needs and prioritizes before taking the candidates to the interview. we’ve then aligned the resumes, deliberately adding those key words to the resumes so that the filtering algorithms pick ours and can pass those checkers just to make it to the interview. i guess they worked for a while. maybe still do to some level. well, if you can fake them here and if you don’t skill up later on, you’ll get caught, you’ll get fired. pretty straight forward. you don’t get the work done, you get fired. and now we have got to the time where the the resumes gets filtered, no question on that. and once the resume gets filtered, you get an email asking you to book a call for an interview, just to speak with another speakable filtering engine. oh well, you can fake here too, like by using non detectable interview helpers or so (like cluely) and again, you don’t live up to the mark that your picture depicted, you get fired. but here is the interesting thing. just like you cheated/taken help by using some AI tool, you can take the same exact help on the job also. so wait, without the proper knowledge of the job and by "cheating or using better ai tools", your resume gets selected, you answer every single question in the interview, and also use the exact same tools to actually do the job. maybe a bit slower at first, but you'd learn. you'd figure things out on the fly. but obviously, if you’re not keeping up with the pace of the rest, and makings things slow, you get fired. learning on the job of course takes time. faking it like it is a skill. maybe it is. reminds me of key & peele “Planning a heist” scene https://youtu.be/ceijkZQI1HM?si=CuNPe9do0f9JqFXu ok, fun apart. this might feel like cheating. it's not. the game has changed. or changing. but to be the actual ideal candidate for a position, there gotta be some new kinds of skill set on top of the subject matter expertise. i think it’s the ability to ask questions and get an understanding of the overall picture i think it is to learning new things fast i think it is to recognize patterns i think it’s the ability to figuring things out on the fly. (also a general human skill to acquire) like if you enter a room/situation, you figure things out, understand what’s happening, know what’s important to work on, and getting to it. and maybe also helping your pal. i think it is to have a solid understanding of what’s happing in the industry you’re in. always. like, follow the news, follow up on the breakthroughs, look at what people are talking about in your area, what’s trending among and most importantly, express yourself. wherever. even in you notes app. the intelligence part is leveraged. like the whole of company docs, the whole of company strategy, plans and what not. every data point created can be injected into AI. but it’s important to know things and have a subject matter expertise so that we can think better with the things we already know, move faster, ask better questions and get a bigger picture. that sure will be the moat. the subject matter + the AI skills the AI skills are again the same skills that i described above. and, in this era, jack of all trades is a boon i guess. you need enough surface area to convincingly engage with AI tools across domains. that's actually a meta skill that's hard to fake long term.