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AI has spurred an arms race of sorts between candidates and employers, as each side looks for ways to both leverage the technology and identify when it’s being used to circumvent the generally accepted rules of talent acquisition. Among the issues employers confront is volume: Ars Technica reports LinkedIn today processes 45% more job applications per minute than it did a year ago. “Both sides [are] deploying increasingly sophisticated AI tools in a bot-versus-bot standoff that is quickly spiraling out of control,” the website said.
The same employers who use AI to manage application volume are now scrambling to detect its use when candidates craft resumes or cover letters, or even identify job opportunities and tweak their applications.
Although candidates have long used technology to refine their resumes, AI has disrupted hiring by allowing candidates to easily create hundreds of job applications, Ars Technica said, “turning what was once a