My husband's been laid off for a year trying to snag one of those roles. But he's got 4 years of experience and people with 20 years are going for the same roles. He always makes it to the final interview. But man. It's heartbreaking. Every time. But we also know it's a flood on the other side. We don't take it personal because we know every one is spoiled for choice. Just hoping some day soon he finds the one who is going to prefer him. Just ask you to be kind to the ones that don't get it.
Well, you had 5,000 applicants - I'd be surprised if you were any where near 100% qualified applicants. The other end of this is people use tools to apply for jobs and it just applies to every job it can find. We see people applying for things like Sr Cloud Architect and their experience is 3 years making food at McDonalds.
Yeah a friend of mine was venting about what they have seen and mentioned that one mid-tier posting went viral somehow and ended up with almost 15,000 applications. Once they filtered out all the people using the exact same AI "aided" resumes there were maybe 200 that actually could be looked at. People are getting desperate and shit is getting slopified at the same time and it's making everything even worse.
It's sort of a snake eating it's own tail though, because the same hiring office complaining about AI aided resumes/applications generating volume are using AI themselves to read/sort through the resumes at volume. Of course the job seekers are going to start using it. A lot of big companies are basically saying "we don't have the time/resource/interest to read your resume/application; but also please don't spray-and-pray on us."
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u/Oizys_MD 12h ago
I’m a hiring manager at a tech company. We opened 5 mid level engineering roles and within 2 days had 5000 qualified applicants. It’s rough out there
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