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Employers have a bizarre new job interview problem: Figuring out if they’re talking to a human

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Employers have a bizarre new job interview problem: Figuring out if they’re talking to a human. The recruitment process has become so frustrating lately that more than 1.2 million recruiters and candidates alike take to Reddit each week to peruse a subreddit appropriately called r/recruitinghell. What’s largely to blame? AI . Among U.S. hiring managers, 60% say that artificial intelligence is making it harder to evaluate a candidate’s real skills, according to a report released this week from Western Governors University, a private nonprofit online university based in Utah. Even more alarming is that nearly 20% of the 3,100-plus professionals.

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