{"id":110561,"date":"2025-09-03T03:03:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110561\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:03:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:03:06","slug":"ta-teams-are-looking-to-new-hiring-strategies-to-address-doom-loop-of-overreliance-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/110561\/","title":{"rendered":"TA teams are looking to new hiring strategies to address \u201cdoom loop\u201d of overreliance on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid a chorus of promises to reduce workloads and headaches, AI tools have made a loud entry into the world of talent acquisition (TA)and\u2026everywhere else. Recruiters who are no strangers to automation in the hiring process are now discovering a series of new hacks<\/a> employed by their counterparts, job seekers, in efforts to bolster their chances of employment.<\/p>\n

This cohort of already understaffed and over-burdened HR pros is navigating a tsunami of applications for open roles, and new applicant efforts<\/a> to get ahead are impacting the candidate experience, time to fill, quality of hire, and even poses real security and privacy concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s getting easier and easier to apply for jobs and harder and harder to get a job,\u201d said Dan Chait, the CEO of recruiting platform Greenhouse. \u201cI don\u2019t look at a job seeker\u2014who\u2019s trying to get a job and really needs a job\u2014as the villain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chait told HR Brew that the rise of pandemic-era remote work and the ability to employ talent untethered by location, a cooling market for job seekers, and, of course, AI, have all contributed to this new set of problems facing recruiters and TA pros.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerally speaking, they\u2019re in a doom loop that\u2019s all making stuff worse,\u201d he said. \u201cJob seekers are applying to many more jobs, and they\u2019re like, \u2018I\u2019m never gonna get a job. I\u2019m gonna use AI and automation to apply to hundreds of jobs instead of dozens of jobs,\u2019 and then employers are turning around and saying, \u2018This is ridiculous. I\u2019m not gonna read a thousand r\u00e9sum\u00e9s; AI, tell me the five I should pay attention to.\u2019 And that\u2019s getting worse, not better.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to new research from Greenhouse<\/a>, job seekers are increasingly turning to AI tools to help apply for more jobs, to tailor their r\u00e9sum\u00e9s more closely to job postings (sometimes with information or skills that are untrue), or skirt past knock-out questions in applications. Behaviors start to cross the line when job seekers employ the tool to make its own decisions on their behalf in order to move forward in ways that can border on dishonesty or be outright false, he added.<\/p>\n

Applicants are using AI tools in interviews (45%) to help aid their expertise, and in some cases this is not malevolent behavior. AI company Athropic, for example<\/a>, is \u201clooking for candidates who excel at collaborating with AI,\u201d and outlines ways candidates are encouraged to work with the tools ethically during the hiring process.<\/p>\n

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Others are even injecting code into their applications to prompt the AI tools to surface up a positive response to the particular application. Greenhouse internal hiring data reveals that this is indeed happening, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll these places where AI tools are showing up. People are figuring out ways to try to trick the AI,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Greenhouse in June launched Real Talent<\/a>, a new product designed to help recruiters cut through the spam and fraud in the hiring process, to better surface up quality candidates. The platform partnered with CLEAR, the identify verification vendor you can spot at the airport.<\/p>\n

But TA orgs don\u2019t need the Greenhouse infrastructure to guard against the slop.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of them are quite rudimentary,\u201d he said of the ways TA pros are addressing this. \u201cWhat companies are doing today, absent Real Talent, literally, I\u2019ve had a company say, \u2018We\u2019re having job seekers show their ID on an interview with a recruiter.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Talent organizations can also collect and review ATS data for signals of fraud, including the device that submitted the application, the location of the IP address, the email the applicant used to apply, whether the content in the application matches or mirrors other content from other applicants.<\/p>\n

Some TA pros are developing a system to assess the onslaught of applications as they come in. Chronological is illogical now, but some organizations are developing ways to better understand the skills and needs of a role and \u201canalyze the inbound applicants\u201d to surface different signals about \u201cwho may or may not be a more likely fit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Chait pointed to efforts the platform is working on to deliver a new set of relevant hiring signals to recruiters that look different than bygone norms. Earlier this year, Greenhouse launched Dream Job<\/a>, allowing job seekers on the platform to submit one \u201cdream job\u201d application per month. TA pros can pay special attention to those applications, which would likely signal an increased level of care and intentionality by the applicant, due to the scarcity of the option.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might be using automated tools to send a thousand r\u00e9sum\u00e9s out; that\u2019s up to you,\u201d he said, \u201cBut you get one dream job a month, and so as a job seeker you better think carefully\u2026our customers are seeing that those people are passing through at about four times the rate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid a chorus of promises to reduce workloads and headaches, AI tools have made a loud entry into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[84,1371,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-110561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jobs","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-jobs","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}