AI hiring systems scan your resume. You’re clicking through the application form. Checkbox: Do you have a degree? You select no. Thirty years of industry experience in this exact field. None of it matters. The system filters you out before a human reads line one.

Rajhans points to the central problem: AI uses point-scoring that can’t understand context. The personality perfect for a tackle shop might be perfect for corporate sales too, but the checkbox filter never asks. Candidates now use ChatGPT to match resumes perfectly to job descriptions, HR companies build parameters to prevent this, and managers stop using the systems because they’re not getting candidates they need. The contradiction: AI was supposed to make recruiters obsolete, but they’re now more valuable than ever because they’re humans in the loop who know the actual workplace atmosphere.

The first interview happens before you meet anyone. It’s the application form, the checkboxes, the point-scoring system that never asks what you’ve actually built. Next time you click submit, you’re being screened by software that can’t understand context. And the recruiters everyone thought AI would replace? They’re more valuable than ever because they’re the humans who know what automated systems can’t see.

Topics: AI hiring systems, resume screening, applicant tracking systems, job application filters, recruitment technology

GUEST: Mohit Rajhans | http://thinkstart.ca

Originally aired on2026-01-23