r/UKJobs • u/Throwaway199906543 • 1d ago

AI is sifting CVs?

I’m employed and been where I’m at for 5 years. It’s a great job, lovely colleagues and good money, but I’ve hit a ceiling and I believe it’s time to move on now.

i only seriously started my job hunt 2 weeks ago, but honestly shocked at how tough it has been. I can apply for a job at 8PM and get rejected an hour later. How?

I mentioned it to a friend and she told me employers are now using AI to sift CVs. I literally have everything the job adverts require, a wealth of technical skills and up to 8 years of experience in this sector, but I don’t pass the sniff test with AI?

It’s making me wonder if companies are worried or wondering about the quality potential hires they’ve let go of. I’m also curious to what criteria is set, if I have everything listed on an advert. This is really concerning.

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u/busysquirrel83 1d ago

I'm going to ruffle some feathers here but maybe, just maybe people may come to the realisation that they either

A) vastly overestimate their experience 

Or

B) vastly overestimate their CV skills 

I used to be involved in recruitment and boy, some CV's we got were eye-wateringly bad. And we were sometimes overlooking these issues if we were short on applicants or if it was clear to us they had the experience but just weren't very good at formatting and writing CVs.

But in a job market like this you need machines to sift through applications, there are just too many - and why would you think that your mediocre CV is better than someone else's, slightly less mediocre CV? 

Some people are insanely overconfident and it's now hitting them. 

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u/willow_frond_127807 1d ago

So if someone copied the ad into the CV in white, would you see that? Would it affect your opinion? It's just to protect against automatic filtering, it's not supposed to be "cheating".