HR department admits they receive 2000 job applications for one position, and don't look at any of them: 'AI sorts through them, and then they just go based off intuition.'

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• My human resources department says they receive over 2000 applicants per position, and they don’t read any of them.

  
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• It would be interesting for a company to do this as an experiment: either have job seekers go in person to the office to deliver them. It would certainly cut down on bots that just apply to jobs for who knows what reason. It would slash the number of applicants who literally apply to every job under the sun because they're just plain desperate. I wonder whether a company could find worthy applicants using this method. It might trim down the applicant pool too much. If someone is desperate for a job, they might be more willing to submit their application in person, even if they're not qualified, because they don't have anything better to do during the day. I don't know if it'd work or be worth the trouble for everyone involved, but I do know one thing! The boomer community would get a kick out of this recruiting strategy. 

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• There is an inherent contradiction in so much of AI implementation. Companies want their employees to use as much AI as possible, but they don't want their work to look like it was generated by AI, because AI-generated work can look tacky and generic. I wouldn't want to hire someone who can't put enough effort into their application that they must use AI to complete it, but I also wouldn't want to hire someone who can't do their job quickly and properly without AI. You either want an AI-obsessed employee, or you don't! Pick a side!

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