If CVs (aka resumes) aren't dead yet they're certainly headed that way: The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun.
I used to be able to get a sense of a candidate from their CV, but that stopped being true almost two years ago. Now it's safer to assume that every CV (even if entirely factual) is perfectly tailored to the buzzwords in the ad and the company website. It's also likely that the human named on the CV used an AI application tool, so they may never have read the ad or even know they applied.
There's an ATS vs AI arms-race, with ATSs deploying AI to filter candidates, and application tools developing countermeasures to beat those defences. It's nearly impossible to keep up with the pace of change in AI tooling.
And the sheer volume of applications is staggering: "LinkedIn now processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent surge from last year.", and anecdotally I've heard applications going from dozens to hundreds to thousands for every role.
LLMs have already fundamentally changed hiring, and it doesn't look like that process will stop any time soon.
What are you doing these days to hire high quality humans?
One strategy I'm hearing (which makes me 🤯 and 🤦♂️) is "We're adding more stages"!
