Hiring is becoming a battle between AI-written resumes and AI screeners
Comfortable_Damage20 · reddit · 2026-07-24
- The post argues that hiring is turning into “two AIs lying to each other”: candidates use LLMs to write resumes and cover letters, while companies use AI screeners to rank applications.
- That dynamic removes humans from much of the early filtering, leaving the CV as a weaker signal than before.
- The author cites a claim that around 60% of applicants in the UK and US already use AI in the process.
- The only part that still seems hard to automate is live demonstration of the skill during the interview, where keyword stuffing falls apart quickly.
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