Good. It is a terrible way to screen job applicants and a waste of time for them to carefully craft a resume and then have to put all the exact same information into an online job application form.
Good riddance, they have long been obsolete.
> Whereas earlier technologies helped people craft one good résumé more efficiently, AI enables candidates to generate hundreds of customized applications with minimal effort
This isn't totally new - I was doing this pre-AI, over a decade ago. But I guess it's now a lot easier.
i deleted my linkedin last year when i realised it only exists to harvest data for microshafts AI
The last time I was interviewing, many of my interviewers flat out admitted they hadn’t read my resume and were just interested in my leetcode performance.
Look at how far we've come. We started with hiring processes where almost universally to submit an application, you at least spoke to a human who would acknowledge you, know you exist, and have advanced knowledge on whether the position was even open. Very little wasting of applicants time.
Then, we transitioned into highly automated form submissions online, where it's so easy for the potential employer to collect applications that they don't bother to stop receiving them when they have filled the position, and they even keep fake job openings to goose the numbers. IMO, this development was a completely one-sided benefit to employers. They seemed to relish in wasting the applicants time, somehow.
Now, legitimate job postings are being inundated with slop due to how shit the online application process is and how much of the applicant's time it's designed to waste. Sounds like a form of justice, almost.
Maybe now we can go back to confirming a human exists on both ends.