TIL that 73% of job listings use AI to filter resumes before a human ever sees them

I was reading a report from LinkedIn's hiring blog last night and it said nearly three quarters of companies use some kind of automated screening tool. So on one hand, you want to pack your resume with keywords to get past the bot. But on the other hand, if you stuff it too full, it reads like garbage to a real person who finally gets it. Has anyone here ever gotten feedback that their resume got trashed by software when they thought it was fine?

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rowan66629d ago

Think of how many other parts of life work the same way now. Job applications, dating apps, even loan approvals all have this invisible layer of software making decisions before a human gets to weigh in. We design our behavior to satisfy algorithms instead of people. It feels like we are constantly trying to trick machines that don't really understand us.

henry_kelly5416d ago

Oh I totally agree, I finally gave up on dating apps and just started meeting people through my hiking group and it's been way better.

henry_kelly5429d ago

I've actually noticed this most with grocery store apps and their "personalized" coupons. The other day I bought diapers once and now every app on my phone thinks I'm a new parent, throwing baby formula ads at me for six months straight. It's like we're all performing for these bots that see us as one-dimensional data points instead of actual people with messy, complicated lives. You tweak your LinkedIn profile to have the right keywords, you swipe a certain way on dating apps because the algorithm rewards it, you order specific things just to keep your "customer profile" clean. It's EXHAUSTING because we're constantly second-guessing what the machine wants instead of just being ourselves. The real problem is these systems don't learn who we really are - they just learn how we fit into their little boxes.