Overview

• The volume of applications on LinkedIn has surged 45% year over year to roughly 11,000 submissions per minute, driven largely by AI-generated resumes.
• Employers have started using AI-administered interviews and screening bots to prove applicants are human, with tools like Chipotle’s Ava Cado cutting hiring times by up to 75%.
• Fraud risks are growing as investigators charged operators who placed North Korean nationals in remote IT roles and Gartner predicts that one in four applicants could be fraudulent by 2028.
• Even well-intentioned AI screening systems have shown biases—favoring white male names on resumes—and may face scrutiny under the EU’s AI Act and anti-discrimination laws.
• In response, some companies are exploring alternatives to traditional resumes, such as live problem-solving sessions, portfolio reviews or trial work periods to better assess candidate skills.