Dani Schlarmann, a recruiter, noticed something weaken about the candidates.
Motivation letters and curriculum vitae seemed identical. The candidates embellished their experience to correspond to the post description. In addition to that, engineers were surprised using artificial intelligence tools to “cheat” live coding tests.
The California resident, who works for the Blockchain Technology Company, Ava Labs, explained his frustrations with AI on the LinkedIn social network. To solve the problem, Ava Labs began to ask certain candidates to sign an agreement that they will not use AI assistance during their interviews, he said.
“We have had a few people who ride us and say to us:” We should be able to use any tool at our disposal “. Honestly, it’s not the business for you, then, “said Schlarmann, who lives in Corona. “For engineers, we are proud to code prowess, and there will be times when AI cannot solve something for you.”
Job seekers use AI -powered tools to help them improve their curriculum vitae, find jobs, automatically apply to hundreds of roles and even provide on -site responses during video interviews. Fueled by the popularity of the tools fueled by AI such as OpenAi Chatpt, technology giants and startups are underway to publish more AI functionalities which can spit text, code and images in a few seconds.
But the frenzy of the AI also sparked a debate on the moment when technology goes too far, distorting the real skills and the experience of a job candidate. Faced with more competition, companies that reduce thousands of workers, job seekers weigh if IA tools should be paid that could help them get a role faster. Employers and recruiters also face whether job candidates should be allowed to use AI even if they adopt the technology themselves.
Julie Schweber, principal HR HR advisor to Society for Human Resource Management, said employers know that job candidates could use AI to improve their CV or cover letter – but they don’t want people to distort themselves.
“It certainly makes sense because you want a candidate who evolves with technology and not afraid of technology,” she said.
Some companies do not specify if job candidates can use AI and others. Anthropic, an AI startup from San Francisco, asks the job candidates to agree that they will not use AI assistance to answer certain questions because the company wants to “be able to assess the interests and motivations and motivations of people to work at Anthropic”. Amazon said that, if necessary, he will ask the candidates to recognize that they will not use the generating AI during an interview or a test.
Jeremy Pihl, who became unemployed last year for the first time at 51, said that he had used AI tools such as Chatgpt, Swoop and 6figr when looking for.
“If you are not shooting AI, I promise you that it is exploited to you,” he said.
Recruiters use AI to generate work descriptions, examine or screen for candidates, automate candidates and other tasks, according to ShRM.
Pihl, who previously worked as responsible for customer success at Coda and solutions engineer at Apple, always tries to get his next role despite an already demand for around 1,500 jobs.
The AI helped him seek a potential employer and improve support letters, but the use of tools to automatically apply to jobs has not succeeded, he said. Pihl, which has obtained a contract role but is still a job search, said that the progress he had made had been references or contact a recruitment manager who saw his Linkedin profile.
“I don’t know I would look into it since I looked at it at first,” he said. “There is one aspect of it where it is really useful.”
Meanwhile, the job search only becomes more fierce. According to Linkedin Research, almost 60% of people around the world will seek new job in 2025 and 37%.
In March,, The unemployment rate increased slightly to 4.2% with 7.1 million people unemployed, according to the American work statistics. In February, the number of jobs reached 7.6 million, compared to 8.4 million compared to the same month in 2024.
While California’s technological companies continue to reduce payroll, the state unemployment rate has been higher than the national average. In February, California’s unemployment rate was 5.4%, with more than a million unemployed people in the state.
Linkedin, based in Sunnyvale, California, has tested tools fueled by AI on its platform, including one to match candidates for better jobs. Rohan Rajiv, responsible for careers products at LinkedIn, said that there was no doubt that more than needed to win jobs, but that recruiters and job candidates want to spend as little time as possible in the process.
“We are finally at a point where it has become realistic for us not to play the volume game, so that we really play a really concentrated game,” he said.
Almost 40% of LinkedIn Premium subscribers use AI’s features to improve their profile and stand out and almost a third used the work search features fueled by AI of the platform. Most have found it useful, according to LinkedIn.
But there are also controversial AI uses. Such an example: a telepromitator that provides answers generated by AI to employment interview questions.
The final AI, which offers an interview assistant powered by AI and other tools for subscription fees, makes the daring request that candidates can win their next job in 30 days or less.
In some of the startup viral videos on social networks, people read answers generated by AI-Airbatim displayed on a screen during distant job interviews.
Founded in 2023, the San Francisco firm said it had more than a million users from January to February.
The use of an AI interview or a coding assistant could rub certain employers in the wrong direction, but entrepreneurs who have created the tools say they are simply trying to support job seekers who sail on a terrible labor market.
Michael Guan, Managing Director and Co-founder of Final Round IA, said that the perception of people from AI is changing and that the one understands how to use technology will get an advantage. Inspired by superhero Iron Man, who has an AI assistant known as Jarvis, Guan plans a future where these tools will be even more intuitive.
“Imagine that I have a telepromitator on my glasses …”, he said. “Everyone can become Iron Man.”
Kaanvan Dave, who directs marketing to the AI final, said that using an AI interview assistant can help candidates, some who may have linguistic barriers, better articulate their thoughts. Even the president, he said, used a teleprommer.
The company supported by venture capital has created a display panel in San Francisco with an image of President Trump who read “interviews with confidence as our president. Help America take over the work 10x faster with the final round. ”
“I don’t think it goes against all types of standards contrary to ethics,” said Dave.
The use of an AI interview assistant still does not fly with certain recruiters.
Lyndsi Okh, a resident of San Diego who recruits for technological non -profit organizations, said that she suspected a candidate interviewed for a role in creating relationships read responses generated by AI because of their discourse models and their breaks.
“The use of AI to help prepare the interview questions is good, but reading a screen with interview answers is a total confidence violation and a great non-no for me,” she said.
Although she has nothing against the use of AI, Okh said that those who use it successfully do not rely on technology to replace critical thinking.
“We are in the Far West of AI, where it is as if no one knows what to do, and everyone does everything,” she said. “I think it will be finally refined.”
For the moment, nothing beats an answer that seems personal.
