The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

Flood of AI-generated resumes causes chaos for recruiters, who resort to AI to screen them

AI-generated resumes are flooding the job market, forcing employers to use their own AI screening tools in return. According to a report from the New York Times, LinkedIn saw a 45 percent increase in applications submitted through the platform in the past year — an average of 11,000 applications per minute. Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, in addition to LinkedIn's own AI tools for tailoring job applications, is a major contributing factor t…

Applying to Jobs Has Become an AI-Powered Wasteland

If you’re one of millions of job seekers struggling to find stable employment, just know it’s probably not you. With the onslaught of so-called "generative AI" — Silicon Valley’s term for complex prediction algorithms that can be used to create new content based on vast amounts of material that they gathered without the permission of its creators — the job search has become a veritable gauntlet of fake job listings, automated application bots, a…

The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

Employers are drowning in AI-generated job applications, with LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year, according to new data reported by The New York Times. Due to AI, the traditional hiring process has become overwhelmed with automated noise. It's the résumé equivalent of AI slop—call it "hiring slop," perhaps—that currently haunts social media and the web with sensational pictures and misleading …

New York Times: Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

New York Times: Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés. This link goes to a gift article. “The number of applications submitted on LinkedIn has surged more than 45 percent in the past year. The platform is clocking an average of 11,000 applications per minute, and generative artificial intelligence tools are contributing to the deluge.”The post New York Times: Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés first appeared on ResearchBuzz:…

Job Seekers – Some Using AI – Flood LinkedIn With 11,000 Applications a Minute

Artificial intelligence is transforming the recruitment process. Job seekers are increasingly turning to AI to apply to as many openings as possible, while recruiting teams deploy it to manage the resulting floods of resumes and screening interviews.  LinkedIn reports an average of 11,000 applications submitted per minute on its platform, marking a 45% increase in the past year, according to The New York Times. The Times noted that “…generative …