Oct 17, 2022
Have you ever wondered what happens when you send off a job application
I saw a post a few weeks back that caused a lot of debate regarding whether Amazon uses bots/automation to rank job applications. The Amazon employee said humans read the CVs but many did not believe this.
So what happens in the general recruitment world? Humans look at your CV! I have never heard of any recruiter saying differently. My process is simple:
✔ Job ad posted online;
✔ Applications come in;
✔ Dependent on urgency of the role these will be looked at immediately or a time booked in to look in bulk once enough are in;
✔ If in bulk and I have something in the region of 50-100 applications I will look through each at the same time, flag them green, yellow or red (creating automated emails) and book time in to call the most appropriate.
In short, applications are looked at by humans. Flawed humans of course, who can make mistakes but most often experienced professionals who have a reason to discount a CV.
There is a lot of debate about automated software discounting CVs and that it is all a keyword matching situation. I will post next week as to where that could occur and how AI is being used in recruitment.
