17-12-2025 12:00 via theguardian.com

Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the bleak new age of job hunting | Eleanor Margolis

In my six months of looking for work, I’ve found that from fake ads to AI screening software, the search is more soul-destroying than everAs I apply for yet another job, I look at the company’s website for context. I’ve now read their “what we do” section four or five times, and I have a problem – I can’t figure out what they do. There are two possibilities here. One: they don’t know what they do. Two: what they do is so pointless and embarrassing
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