The job market is a mess. The old system is broken and a functioning replacement has yet to fully emerge. We’re stuck in the between years—a dystopian digital doomscape that has job seekers and hirers picking through a landfill of A.I.-generated garbage and longing for the halcyon days of an analog past.
Some people take a more charitable view of the job market. A veteran job coach I’m working with at an outplacement agency says, “It’s not broken; it’s just different.” But the main difference I’ve noticed is that the old system worked, and this one doesn’t. A.I. is advancing faster than our ability to process it. It’s overloading outdated applicant tracking systems—aging software designed to sort, rank, and track job applicants online—with a firehose of generative slop, polluting the job market with A.I.-written résumés, and creating so much noise that quality signal gets lost in the static.
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