Recruiter says AI barely helps sourcing, but it has broken the resume as a signal
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-07-23
A recruiter with 15 years of experience says AI did help a bit with candidate search, but the bigger change is that AI has broken the resume as a reliable signal.
The post argues that when resumes are easy to polish or generate, hiring systems lose a core filter and have to rely more on other evidence of competence and fit.
Related event: AI Mass Applications Turn Recruitment into AI-vs-AI Deception(3 posts)→
More from AGI Musings
- Aeon's former EVP: AI agents are the most impactful innovation of my lifetime — akumar · 2026-10-27
- Physicists Let AI Pick Its Own Problem—It Wrote a Publishable Paper in 2 Hours — burny_tech · 2026-10-27
- Deep learning veteran warns: don't let entrenched disbelief derail prep for the next big tech — jachiam0 · 2026-10-27
- Should platforms serve third-party AI agents? The antitrust question — sjgadler · 2026-10-27
- Musk: robot RAM demand will dwarf everything else, and 100% of superintelligence compute goes to deep space — elonmusk · 2026-10-27
- Anthropic S-1 warns of AI job displacement as Microsoft offers exit to ~27% of staff — _jaydeepkarale · 2026-10-27