AI has turned the act of looking for a job into an abysmal and endless source of frustration. Applicants are using the tech to stuff keywords into their resumes and cover letters, while generating a flood that’s burying recruiters. Meanwhile, HR departments are using AI to make sense of it all as perfectly suitable applicants slip by unnoticed.
Making matters even worse are deepfaked AI avatars conducting early rounds of interviews, in a slap in the face to job seekers who often struggle to get in touch with an actual human at a company that’s currently hiring.
Beyond sending a clear signal that the company cares very little about the recruitment process — let alone about the lives of potential hires — the avatars are also glitchy and easy to break.
Most recently, a TikTok user who goes by The Dreadful Studio opted to speak in pure gibberish — the kind of made-up language you’d expect to hear in “The Sims” — leading an AI interviewer to become unsettlingly irate.
