AI Could Get You Hired… and Fired!
By Soozy G. Miller, CPRW, CDCC, CDP
Andrea owns and runs a small marketing company that specializes in helping restaurants.
Her business has been growing fast, so she’s suddenly found herself hiring for the first time. She has no previous hiring experience.
In just the short time since she started hiring, she’s already frustrated. She has already hired and fired two people. She feels frustrated by how badly people are misrepresenting their talents and skills. She also gets bored by the obviously AI- written resumes she receives. In her short time in hiring, she can already tell.
In February 2025, AIResumeBuilder.com surveyed 1,000 job seekers to assess the role of AI in the job application process:
46% of job applicants used AI to write application materials
37% utilized AI to help with interviews.
41% used it to answer written questions.
Among those who said they lied on their materials, 76% said they received a job offer, and 81% said the lie helped them get the job.
Andrea’s short experience in hiring already supports these facts. “People are using AI to write everything!” she laments. “Their resumes, their answers to my questions during hiring. And the last two people that I hired couldn’t do the job.”
Though Andrea doesn’t have experience as a recruiter or in hiring, it is quite obvious to her when someone has written something in AI versus written it themselves. “Inhuman, stiff, unemotional” is how she describes what she sees.
And then after the hire: “I know there’s an adjustment period after they’re hired. I’m trying to give them chances to correct their work,” Andrea says. “But when they say that they’re detail-oriented, and I’m finding obvious inaccuracies in their work –information that could easily be looked up—I know they lied about their skills on their resume and during interviews.”
She says that she is already wasting her precious time on hiring when she is barely able to keep up with customer demand. “I have so much work to do. Clients want more and more from me, which is great. But I need employees who can keep up. I can’t spend hours on hiring mistakes. That is a complete waste of my time.”
You might need for support when you’re stressed about your job prospects. But please do businesses a favor and read the entire job description, not just the job title, and make sure that you match the job description at least 60% in skills, tools, experience. Please do not rely on AI. Let’s save you and the company headaches, shall we?
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