It Should Be Harder to Apply for a Job. No, Really
The combination of fewer open roles, frictionless one-click applications, and AI-generated submissions has flooded hiring pipelines with volume, making the job search harder for applicants and employers alike.
Why this matters: When applying takes one click and AI writes the cover letter, everyone applies for everything. Hiring teams drown in volume. Real candidates get lost in the noise. The friction that felt unfair was also doing work. Removing it did not level the playing field. It just shifted the burden onto automated screening tools that decide, quickly and quietly, whose application a human ever sees. That is a lot of power to hand to a filter most people never get to question.
Who should care: AI governance · Lawyers · Administrators · General readers · Policy
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