The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun
AI-generated job applications have overwhelmed the hiring process, with LinkedIn processing 11,000 submissions per minute—a 45 percent increase from last year—as candidates use AI tools to mass-produce customized résumés with minimal effort. This has triggered an escalating arms race where employers deploy their own AI screening tools while job seekers use AI to generate interview answers, creating a bot-versus-bot standoff that obscures genuinely qualified candidates amid the noise. The disruption represents a fundamental shift from earlier résumé technologies that improved efficiency for individual documents to AI's capacity to generate hundreds of applications automatically, forcing companies like Anthropic to publicly discourage AI use in their own hiring processes.
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