Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"The problem is less that candidates are using A.I. — a skill many employers say they want — than it is that they’re being sloppy. Alexa Marciano, the managing director of Syndicatebleu, a recruiting agency, said job seekers were reacting to recruiters’ use of automated screening. “It’s really frustrating for the candidates because they spend all this time creating very catered cover letters, very catered résumés,” she said.<br>Jeremy Schifeling, a career coach who regularly conducts technology-focused job-search training at universities, said he could see this back-and-forth going on for a while. “As students get more desperate, they say, ‘Well, I have no choice but to up the ante with these paid tools to automate everything.’ And I’m sure the recruiters are going to raise the bar again.”<br>He argues the endgame will be authenticity from both sides. But, he said, “I do think that a lot of people are going to waste a lot of time, a lot of processing power, a lot of money until we reach that realization.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/dealbook/ai-job-applications.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/06/21/busines</span><span class="invisible">s/dealbook/ai-job-applications.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LinkedIn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LinkedIn</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/JobSeeking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JobSeeking</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HR</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Recruitment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Recruitment</span></a></p>