HR department admits they receive 2000 job applications for one position, and don't look at any of them: 'AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition.'

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  • My human resources department says they receive over 2000 applicants per position, and they don’t read any of them.

    They claim they only read a handful of them. Al sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition. A lot of people have impressive resumes, and it's honestly. impossible for them to choose.

  • At this point your resume is probably fine. Job sites like LinkedIn have kled recruitment. I guarantee your odds of getting a job would've been way higher if places accepted resumes in person.

  • It would be interesting for a company to do this as an experiment: either have job seekers go in person to the office to deliver them. It would certainly cut down on bots that just apply to jobs for who knows what reason. It would slash the number of applicants who literally apply to every job under the sun because they're just plain desperate. I wonder whether a company could find worthy applicants using this method. It might trim down the applicant pool too much. If someone is desperate for a job, they might be more willing to submit their application in person, even if they're not qualified, because they don't have anything better to do during the day. I don't know if it'd work or be worth the trouble for everyone involved, but I do know one thing! The boomer community would get a kick out of this recruiting strategy. 

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  • DogtorPepper This is true. I'm an employer and for a recent open position I got well over 1000 applications. There's no way I can go through all of them and honestly a solid 20-30% were totally qualified people who could have done the job well. However I can only hire 1 person so I had to a pick a random set of a few hundred resumes to review and select who to interview. Out of that, only one offer goes out So yes, there were hundreds and hundreds of resumes that never saw my eyes and that's jus

  • SomeSamples From what I have been seeing...the employer gets hundreds or thousands of applications. The employer is stunned by the number of applicants. So, the employer askes around his friends and employees if anyone knows someone. Someone eventually recommends someone and hands the resume to the employer. The employer looks it over, interviews the person then hires them.

  • withbellson Nah, it's not that bleak! I got two interviews because my former boss gave glowing recommendations to other teams at his company, and I didn't get either job. So there's still room to get a job if all those referrals s k at selling themselves. Sincerely, I hate this.

  • hubert7 As a recruiter this is why i dont even post jobs anymore. I dont want to waste peoples' time for stuff i wont even look through. I am sure it depends on what you are hiring for but 10 minutes of sourcing on linkedin saves myself and candidates a lot of time.

  • Jolly_Mongoose_8800 I hand reviewed a batch of ~500 once. A good most of them are Al generated resumes from people outside of the country, or from people who obviously wouldn't move for the position they applied for over 1000 miles away. Even some people we gave first round interviews to were talking about a 130 mile commute. Big companies use Al to make it impossible to get a job, and small companies are being slammed with Al resumes that are impossible to sort through. Everyone is fi

  • Moneygrowsontrees I had a dystopian conversation with someone in charge of hiring at the company I work for yesterday. She's a director hiring for a manager position (will be my boss). She said we got 700 applications in the first 24 hours of the job posting. We used Al to cull it to 250. She won't look at any more applications unless we don't hire someone from this 250. The CFO instructed her to scan through the extra questions we asked and reject anyone who "sounded like they used Al."

  • Why is this dystopian? Because we literally have an annual goal to generate 10 use cases for Al in our daily work flow. Our company is heavily pushing the adoption of Al. So we use Al to filter the applications, and once they're hired we want them to use Al as much as possible, but we don't want them to use Al to fill out the application or their resume. How the f does that make any sense?! What sort of sick, twisted, game are we playing?

  • Luckily for the applicants in this case, the director agrees with me and doesn't give two sh s if their responses sound Al. In fact, she doesn't care about the questions at all because she thinks they're stupid and don't tell her anything. She did toss the guy who answered the question "Why do you want to work here?" with "NO" but she passed someone to a phone screen who answered it with "I could express this better in an interview setting."

  • There is an inherent contradiction in so much of AI implementation. Companies want their employees to use as much AI as possible, but they don't want their work to look like it was generated by AI, because AI-generated work can look tacky and generic. I wouldn't want to hire someone who can't put enough effort into their application that they must use AI to complete it, but I also wouldn't want to hire someone who can't do their job quickly and properly without AI. You either want an AI-obsessed employee, or you don't! Pick a side!

  • satisfactorysadist And this why I've been job hunting for 3 years. I'm lucky to have a partner who can help with money, but we have no saving and nothing for retirement. At this point I feel bad wasting my time getting my MA. Both the hr department and applicants are being pitted against each other. I couldn't even get a PT holiday job last year. I just want to give up.

  • Top_Lock7800 Honestly feels like applying online turned into buying a lottery ticket, except the ticket also needs 4 interviews and a custom cover letter.

  • ForBirmingham205 so everyone is now looking for a new job? Thats crazy.

  • Haldanar The way most employers work now, you almost have to move every 2-3 years to have any wages or career progression. That means people are applying way more than they used to, when you could stay in a company for your whole career.

  • InsideAd732 And rampant layoffs

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  • TopStockJock I'm a recruiter and if I leave a software job open more than 24 hours I'll have thousands of applicants. Most are fake or people using Al to mislead. No recruiter ever looks at all the resumes in those situations.

  • jettech737 My wife needed a cashier for her shop, only one position. She got 300 applications, 299 got rejected. She didnt look at the rest once she found her newhire.

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