{"id":853936,"date":"2026-08-13T15:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853936\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T15:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T15:50:12","slug":"jobseekers-insist-ai-recruitment-tools-are-ageist-but-this-careers-coach-says-theyre-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/853936\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobseekers insist AI recruitment tools are ageist, but this careers coach says they\u2019re wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 13, 2026 \u2013 2.27pm<\/p>\n<p>Every day, Ash Becker receives a flood of messages from job-seeking women. The vast majority, she says, are raging against artificial intelligence, convinced it is scuppering their applications at the first hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>The desperate messages hitting her inbox say things like, \u201cThere\u2019s so much AI around! There\u2019s ageism and AI! I can\u2019t get through the ATS [applicant tracking system]. An AI bot is not letting me pass through to interview.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 13, 2026 \u2013 2.27pm Every day, Ash Becker receives a flood of messages from job-seeking women. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-853936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}