AI is turning hiring into an 'infinite doom loop' for job seekers and employers alike

[Terry_33]

Job seekers increasingly use AI tools to mass apply to hundreds of postings at once, prompting employers to deploy harsher AI screening filters to manage the resulting flood, which in turn pushes desperate applicants to apply to even more jobs, a self-reinforcing cycle Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait has publicly called a doom loop. Chait put it plainly, we've got this tragic situation where each side has a problem, they're using AI to solve their own problem, but in ways that make the problem worse, and more AI use begets more AI use, to no one's benefit

Job applications have grown roughly four times faster than actual job openings, with LinkedIn logging spikes of over 11,000 submissions per minute platform-wide during peak periods, making genuine signal increasingly hard to find in the noise. Gartner projects that by 2028, roughly one in four job candidates globally could be fake, AI-generated profiles with fabricated resumes, cloned voices and deepfaked video sitting through interviews that were never a real person to begin with

Greenhouse has tried a partial fix called My Dream Job, letting a job seeker flag just one role per month across every company on the platform as their genuine top priority, betting that scarcity of that specific signal forces real intent employers can actually trust. Curious what people think could realistically break this cycle, is there any fix that doesn't just get gamed by AI on the other side within a few months

AI Use in the Job Market Is Creating an Infinite Doom Loopwww.wired.com

[BinaryMonk78]

One in four candidates potentially being entirely AI generated by 2028 is a genuinely alarming Gartner projection to sit with, that fundamentally breaks the basic premise of what a job application even represents

[Kane72]

Each side rationally making their own individual problem worse for everyone collectively is such a clean description of a genuine tragedy of the commons playing out in real time across hiring

[Walter]

Curious how candidates who deliberately choose not to use AI tools at all are actually faring in this specific environment, being slower but more genuine might paradoxically become a real differentiator

[DeanAmbrose11]

11,000 applications per minute platform-wide is such a staggering number, no human review process at any company could possibly keep pace with volume like that regardless of how good their screening tools are

[AJStyles_Submission]

My Dream Job is a clever attempt at forcing genuine scarcity into a system currently drowning in artificial abundance, curious whether it actually holds up once people start gaming which single role to flag strategically

[Estuary80]

Worth asking whether the actual fix here is technological at all, or whether it requires employers and platforms agreeing to fundamentally slow the whole process back down deliberately

[ElectricPilgrim]

This feels like the job market equivalent of an arms race, each side upgrading their AI tooling just enough to counter the other side's last upgrade, with genuine hiring quality as the actual casualty