Do you use AI to filter job applications?

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Is anyone using AI to filter job applications at their work?

I have just spent all afternoon putting in a job application through Indeed for an admin role for a home-education company. Got a message within 15 minutes (on a Sunday), supposedly from 'Kelly' at the company - to say my application wasn't going to be taken further. My husband says it is definitely AI filtering....

I have loads of experience - but not maybe in the traditional route. So I feel pretty miffed to have wasted my time doing an application, when AI (as I understand it) only picks up on key words and roles - and has decided against me. Especially as this is supposed to be a 'holistic' and caring company!

Is this how things work now??

Yes!
It’s very difficult to get your cv through with “transferable” skills now as you need a human to see that these are useful in the job they’re recruiting to.
If the applications are screened by AI you have to have the exact job titles and education/ past experience they’re looking for or it’s immediately rejected

Edited to add the Yes was in response to your question on if this is how things are now. I don’t use AI in recruitment!

If you look up their privacy policy they have to tell you when and where they’re using automated methods, there should be a means to challenge it too. No we don’t, public sector so we are quite ‘regulated’ so to speak (not literally) but our recruitment practices tend to have to be far more rigorous to demonstrate fair and open competition.

No, we don’t. I probably did reject several applications within 15 minutes of receiving them though, even on a Sunday, purely due to the volume. I spend 30 seconds scanning a cv and reject if it isn’t outstanding, because I’ll get 300+ applications a day!

we don’t use automated decision making with AI, it’s not worth the hassle!

My company still has a human look at every application. And no one looks at any of them until applications close.

One recent change however, is that for some roles we get so many AI generated CVs that we have to close applications early, due to volume received, and it does mean that each CV gets less time spent looking at it. So if you are coming in from a less traditional route or a less traditional background, I will need you to spell out how your experience translates into being the right person for this role - I simply don't have the time to read between the lines and think laterally.