Exeter<\/a> in 2024.<\/p>\nFollowing media coverage of his plight, he received more than 75 messages and connection requests on LinkedIn, which led to him getting a job offer.<\/p>\n
And, after previously blaming the recent boom in the use of AI for the difficulties he encountered getting a job, Theo is now working as an AI analyst at professional services company BDO.<\/p>\n
Aware of the irony, Theo said: \u201cIt\u2019s something that can be dangerous to the job-market, but there\u2019s a flip side to it, it\u2019s a double-edged sword.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can be used for good as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is funny to be on the other side of it, I\u2019m looking at it more from the angle of actually bettering people\u2019s lives, making things more efficient.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Theo dal Pozzo blamed AI for job rejection (Image: Theo dal Pozzo \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
After a short stint working in his family\u2019s hotel in Brazil, Theo started applying for jobs in May 2025.<\/p>\n
He applied to more than 500 roles \u2013 and was rejected from all of them.<\/p>\n
Theo, who moved to London from Brazil aged two and has British citizenship, even made it to a final stage interview with one big tech firm but was unsuccessful.<\/p>\n
Now, his jobless plight is over.<\/p>\n
Theo said: \u201cRelief is definitely the word that I would use.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t expect to be relieved, I expected to be celebrating, but on the day I actually got the offer I just gave my housemate a hug. We sat down in the kitchen, and I just took a massive breath and said \u2018wow, finally\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was something I didn\u2019t expect to take that long \u2013 a year was unfortunate. The issue with it is that it\u2019s not a one-off, my situation is one that so many people are facing.<\/p>\n
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Theo dal Pozzo blamed AI for job rejection (Image: Theo dal Pozzo \/ SWNS)<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say that I got quite lucky to an extent. It\u2019s not feasible for everybody to get the sort of visibility that I did, it\u2019s something that has to change systematically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now he\u2019s off Universal Credit, Theo said he can finally afford to have a social life again.<\/p>\n
Asked what he does now that he can afford to, he said: \u201cGet a pint, honestly. London is a really expensive city, and it\u2019s very difficult to be in London on Universal Credit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I can regain my social life and actually go out with friends, now that I actually have an income. One of the massive things about that whole year, was more the isolation of job searching.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not talked about that much. The whole day I\u2019d be at home applying and reaching out on my laptop. You don\u2019t really see many people, especially because you don\u2019t have money \u2013 you can\u2019t really go out.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe isolation hits hard.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe main thing is just to keep your head up, and trust in yourself, believe in yourself. It sounds cringey, but it\u2019s about focusing and taking the opportunities that come to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was knocked back after applying for hundreds of jobs Theo dal Pozzo blamed AI for job rejection…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,2195,19348,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-650877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-employment","tag-exeter","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650877","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=650877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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