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Recruiters told me AI screening overlooks the best candidates. True?

After submitting a lot of CVs recently, I’ve separately been asking recruiters and hiring managers, in-house and agency, how they’re coping now that applications can be written, enhanced or fabricated by AI, and graded by AI. An in-house recruiter at a 2,000-person company said their ranking tool grades CVs A to D, and the people they end up hiring are frequently the C’s. An agency director trialled fully automated screeners and said they “overlooked some of the strongest candidates”. A hiring m

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Source account: After submitting a lot of CVs recently, I’ve separately been asking recruiters and hiring managers, in-house and agency, how they’re coping now that applications can be written, enhanced or fabricated by AI, and graded by AI. An in-house recruiter at a 2,000-person company said their ranking tool grades CVs A to D, and the people they end up hiring are frequently the C’s. An agency director trialled fully automated screeners and said they “overlooked some of the strongest candidates”. A hiring m

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