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In the Czech Republic, the post-2008 crisis dragged for quite a long time, and the job market around 2012 was so bad that when we put out an ad for a secretary,

In the Czech Republic, the post-2008 crisis dragged for quite a long time, and the job market around 2012 was so bad that when we put out an ad for a secretary, we got over 300 applicants. I don't think we answered every single of them, we were a small company (15 people at that time), and even our wish for basic courtesy was constrained by real lack of time and people. That is also why we needed a secretary... I can't even imagine the same situation in 2025, with AI. Would that be 3000 applicants?

a2128 1y ago
Maybe in 2030, everyone will have several AI agents constantly looking for their dream job. One job listing will receive 3 million applications. Companies will start requiring payment to submit a job application to show you're serious and not a spammer. Any hiring manager hoping to get reached out to by an actual human applicant via a job listing will be hopeless, and any individual applicant hoping to reach a human hiring manager will also be hopeless
creer 1y ago
I don't know in the Czech Republic but in the US for many years now, most of the job applications are garbage: complete mismatch between experience and position applied to, lists of keywords that are clearly BS, unreadable presentations... This is not new. But no, most of them have always been very easy to dismiss. It takes time but mostly because of the quantity. Not much time per resume. It was just one of these thankless tasks that needed to be gotten through. (And HR - for good or bad - did much of that.) Perhaps the problem is that we all root for a non-standard application to be a great find. And that yes, sometimes they are! Probably looking for these in job posting applications is not worth it anymore.