I blame Reddit for this. People are applying for anything out of desperation. Reddit advice from the 2021-2022 job market was to apply for everything even if you're unqualified, just because. 1 person will make a thread saying they had 1 YOE and got hired for a 5 YOE role and then 100,000 other people who view the thread think they can do the same or have the same luck.
We post a job that explicitly calls for 5 YOE or more. 5,000 applicants in a week. 95% of applicants will be people with 0-3 YOE. 2/3 of that 95% will be people who are international or need sponsorship, even though we have in big bold letters that we do not sponsor and do not hire international.
We've come to conclusion most of these applicants are using AI tools to spam their garbage across thousands of jobs and their resumes all sound the same with the same bullshit made up metrics. If you are using an AI resume, stop. It's 2025 not February 2023. GPT resumes aren't a secret edge anymore. Every single recruiter and hiring manager can easily tell what a GPT resume looks like now. They all look, sound and 'flow' the same.
Then, a solid amount of people straight up bullshit their resume and when you interview them, they know nothing and you can tell they used AI to fluff their resume good enough to appear like they know their stuff. They just lie about everything including titles and past companies in hopes they will pass the background check.
All of this takes a ton of time away from recruiters and hiring managers, and makes us overlook actual qualified applicants due to the sheer volume. Every time you meet the qualifications for a job and get ghosted, it's almost always because your resume never even got looked at because of the sheer volume of garbage we have to sort through to even get to the qualified applicants.
willing to learn made me LOL
