AI is spamming up job purposes. 404 Media’s Jason Koebler writes about how he used a free software, AI Hawk, to use for 17 jobs in an hour whereas working a restaurant shift — solely stopping when he’d reached 2,843.
The software mechanically entered Koebler’s bio information, generated resumes, wrote custom-made cowl letters, and checked all the required (and literal) containers earlier than submitting the paperwork on his behalf.
AI Hawk is certainly one of many AI job-applying instruments on the market — they usually’re contributing to a weird loop, Koebler writes, the place people have basically been faraway from the job utility and hiring course of. An rising variety of corporations use AI software program to overview — and even interview — candidates. Actually, 42% of corporations in a 2023 survey admitted utilizing AI screening instruments.
As Koebler writes, the results on candidates filling out purposes the old school method aren’t but clear.
