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How employers are fighting AI slop in their hiring pipelines + new remote roles!

Employers are sick of receiving AI slop in their pipelines.

Application answers are exactly the same, resumes are filled with keywords but missing the actual skills and experience the role requires. Tools like Quick Apply and AI job application apps made it easier than ever to apply to hundreds of jobs at once, and the volume alone is a problem. Candidates who actually put in the work and are qualified are getting buried under all of it.

So what’s the solution? According to publications like Business Insider and The Washington Post, employers are no longer relying on resumes and are asking applicants to prove their credentials. Sounds a bit familiar.

They’re doing things like work trials where you onboard with the company for a few days or a week, get paid, and work alongside them. This isn’t a new concept at all, but it’s slowly becoming a bigger practice in the age of AI to verify the skills a candidate claims to have, and ensure they work well with the team.

I’ve always appreciated this practice because you never truly know if someone is a good fit until they’ve begun working at the company. This gives candidates the opportunity to prove their skills, receive pay for their time and contribution, and get to know potential team members. However, realistically, this approach is not scalable. More companies can’t implement this than those who can. While it’s more optimal for retention purposes, it’s time-consuming and costly.

Some companies are doing things like ‘skill-based hiring’, which sounds like normal hiring but rebranded, where they still require a resume but don’t take it as truth or allow it to hold much weight. The reason why I say this is just normal hiring rebranded because a resume has always only been the first part of the process. Candidates have needed to prove their skills throughout long interview processes before getting to the offer stage anyway.

Lastly, some employers aren’t requiring resumes at all. Instead, they’re prioritizing application questions that require more unique responses. Of course responses can still be AI-generated but this reduces the redundancy of the same exact answers coming through. This is a great approach, but again, this isn’t scalable for companies on a time-crunch, hiring for tons of roles.

The reality is that resumes aren’t going anywhere. The solutions they’re introducing have either always existed, or cannot be applied to most companies. If anything, the ancient practice of relying on referrals remains the best, and most trusted way, to find talent. That is, as long as your workforce has the ability to refer a diverse, innovative pool of candidates.

But maybe someone out there is building a better solution…*wink*

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I Heard Employers Are Ditching Resumes🤨

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