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I agree, but to some extend that the bed companies made, now they have to lay in it

because it's an arms race, recruiters are also using AI to filter people, just look at the chat GPT hack for resumes

indeed I know (I had a longish term gig working on an "applicant survey SaaS app"). Measures and counter-measures :-)

I never expected to see a sentence with 'recruiters' and 'empathy' that didn't include the words 'lack of'.

It's a good point haha :-) Maybe caused by the fact I've done a fair bit of recruiting (although not at large companies) some years and sometimes drown a bit. I can relate somehow.

I'd bet my hat that most of the recruiters never even saw a single resume that came from the AI, and that the vast, vast majority were immediately filtered by the ATS.

Doesn't even have to be anything big, just that there aren't enough keywords, or that there were gaps between employment that were too large, etc.

The ATS would then rank the applications and score them, and HR just looks at the top 15 or something and picks the top 5, whittles them down to 2-3.

They're not spending 8 hours a day reading resumes.