Job Seekers Are Using AI To Fight AI, and They're Winning

Job-seeking AI might help humans win the battle, but it may cost us the war

“I’m serious. I lined up three job interviews in two days.”

What?!?

I mean, no offense.

That’s what “Sam” told me last week to finally get me to meet him at a Starbucks and show me the AI app he had been using to scrape LinkedIn and apply for tech jobs while he worked on various side projects on his second laptop.

Sam is not an AI developer. He’s not even super technical. All he did was download an app he read about in a forum, an app that uses AI on behalf of the job-seeker to battle the AI being used on behalf of the company’s applicant tracking system — to even the odds.

This shouldn’t be shocking to me. Over the last couple weeks alone, I’ve written thousands of words on the posting of fake jobs, the prospect of AI using AI, and the scourge of automated content screening — all of this congealing to make a mess of the average everyday job search.

I don’t know. I knew this kind of software was out there. I just didn’t think it worked.

Well, turns out it “works” exactly as I’d feared.

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