Software engineer Julian Joseph decided to find a good job using the high-tech AI tool LazyApply. With its help, he sent about 5000 CVs to various companies in his field of activity. It took only 1 click to send so many online applications, and a few minutes to prepare for sending them.
As a result of his desire to get a “dream job”, he received 20 invitations to interview from employers who found Joseph’s candidature attractive. What may be interesting is that all the invitations were received after sending several hundred applications in “manual” mode without the use of artificial intelligence. The existence of the LazyApply tool may say at least two things.
Firstly, it is worrying that employers and recruitment agencies will be overwhelmed by the abundance of automated applications of poor quality. At the same time, employment requires applicants to be persistent and fill in the same information hundreds of times to expect to get results. We should not forget that recruiters also use AI in their work, which does not give any confidence in the transparency of candidate selection. They also point out that the best way to find an employee is to search through people you know.
