Greenhouse CEO says job seekers are paying $20 to apply for every job on the hiring platform and spamming bosses—he calls it the AI doom loop
Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their application out to every open role they can find. But according to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, employers are just as miserable—and he’s got a name for the hiring nightmare: an AI doom loop. Recommended Video “This is the first time when really both sides have been unhappy,” Chait told Fortune.
- ▪Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their application out to every open role they can find.
- ▪But according to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, employers are just as miserable—and he’s got a name for the hiring nightmare: an AI doom loop.
- ▪Recommended Video “This is the first time when really both sides have been unhappy,” Chait told Fortune.
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Job seekers are exhausted. Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their application out to every open role they can find. But according to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, employers are just as miserable—and he’s got a name for the hiring nightmare: an AI doom loop. Recommended Video “This is the first time when really both sides have been unhappy,” Chait told Fortune. “The market just isn’t working for either side.” Job seekers, he says, are “piling more and more job applications into the black hole and not getting any progress.” It doesn’t matter how many they send—they “just don’t get anywhere.” So they’ve turned to AI tools that make the process less painful.
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