In this day and age, though, it's more like, "Submit your PDF to hundreds of job applications just so that they can be rejected by an algorithm that was trained by 15 years of Reddit comments."
This job seeker posted online in a story they shared with an online Reddit community about how they had been rejected by an automated AI job-apllication processing aplicaltion for, get this, not having experience in a program that they created.
Basically, these days, it's an automated program, or someone who couldn't get a technical degree and so decided to go and work a modern, rebranded HR role. Working in departments condoundedly labeled "People and Culture" and "Talent Strategy" and aspiring to one day become a "Chief People Officer", judging the qualifications of candidates for experience in degrees they failed out of, and in subjects that they, frankly, don't quite comprehend.
Whereas once competency and experience could be assessed and addressed with relative ease. Now everything is overcomplicated. If you're not rejected by an AI outright, or your CV isn't shoveled into the recycling by someone who didn't understand what they were reading, you just have to sit through multiple rounds of interviews with people who would rather not be there and will score you not based on experience, qualifications, or aptitude, but rather on how they happen to feel that morning. Whatever the reason, it's likely that whether or not they've had the chance to step out for their second coffee or had time for breakfast will likely have more bearing on whether or not you get hired than proven competency.
Hey, just remember the next time you sit through a 4-round interview process: You're keeping someone in HR employed.
Lucky you. Should we all be so fortunate?
A candidate holds his resume during an interview.
A sticky note with the letters "AI"
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