Is Your Resume AI-Ready?
Stop losing to bots. Learn the human-first strategies that actually get you hired in an AI-saturated job market.
The AI Hiring Arms Race Guide by What About AI? reveals how AI is disrupting job applications on both sides — applicants using AI to mass-apply and employers using AI to mass-reject. It provides human-first strategies that actually get you hired in an AI-saturated job market.
Source: What About AI?
AI Hiring Arms Race
Strategic Guide
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What's Inside the Guide
The Real Numbers
83% of companies use AI to screen resumes. 99% of Fortune 500 use ATS. See the full data on bot vs. bot hiring.
The Double Standard
Why companies penalize you for using AI while they use it themselves—and how to navigate this hypocrisy.
Network Strategies
How to leverage human connections to bypass AI screening entirely—the approach that works for 80% of our clients.
Key Insights from This Guide
Here are some of the most important findings. Download the full guide for complete analysis, action steps, and checklists.
83% of Companies Using AI to Screen Resumes
83% of companies use AI to screen resumes by 2025, with 99% of Fortune 500 companies using ATS systems. Simultaneously, 40-50% of job applications involve bot interaction, creating a broken ecosystem where automated systems interact with each other rather than humans evaluating candidates.
Double Standard in Corporate AI Usage
82% of companies use AI to review resumes and 64% use AI for candidate assessments, yet 54% of hiring managers penalize candidates for using AI on their own applications. 33.5% of hiring managers can spot AI-generated resumes in under 20 seconds.
AI-Generated Resume Homogeneity Backfires
64% of recruiters report increases in identical AI-generated resumes, and 74% of hiring managers have seen AI-generated content in applications. Mass-applying with AI-generated materials produces diminishing returns as more applications correlate with more filtering, not more interviews.
Referrals Bypass AI Screening Entirely
A single conversation with a hiring manager outweighs 1,000 automated applications. Clients using human-first networking strategies achieved an 80% redeployment rate, demonstrating that personalized outreach significantly outperforms spray-and-pray applications.