The Atlantic: applicants write with ChatGPT, HR screens with AI, no one gets hired
esporx · reddit · 2026-08-28
The Atlantic's piece "The Job Market Is Hell" describes a paradoxical loop in the current job market: young applicants use ChatGPT to write their applications while HR uses AI to read them — both sides lean on AI, yet almost no one gets hired. The article examines how heavy AI penetration on both ends of hiring has left the labor market, especially for young people, in a stalemate.
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