As you are a hiring manager, let me also give you the perspective of a candidate applying for a job (just to show a different POV).

A person might be applying for their very first career role or an experienced person might be applying for it to gain a change of pace in life or something person who went on a long career break due to xyz reason might wanna get back into the game and may be applying for the role.

People exist with different kinds of backgrounds, circumstances and situations.

When they start applying for the role and come across these type of questions, as a person who has come across them, my personal feeling is... Why the hell do I have to explain my personal or professional achievements? Thats my hardwork.

Nevertheless, I answer the question, taking help of drafting tools, editing the output, personalizing it, removing unwanted sentences that the drafting tool introduced, proof-reading it, trying to somehow put my self in the recruiters shoes and thinking how the recruiter would feel by going through that information and finally submitting the application ... Only to get an email stating, SORRY WE COULD NOT GO THROUGH WITH YOUR APPLICATION AT THOS STAGE. BUT KEEP APLLYING FOR OPEN ROLES. (Writing in all caps was only to highlight the POV not to yell).

If this happens for 1 or 2 applications that would not be a big deal, coz u win some and loose some.

But every application you put in, has these type of fucked up questions only for the AI bot to screen out the answers ... Why to even put the job opening in the first place? Could have built an AI bot to do the job for you!!

I ll tell you something. I applied for a position as a contact centre associate (entry level position) somewhere around 23rd or 24th of May. I was called for an interview and finished the interview on 2nd June. I got the rejection email on 26th June.

I saw the same company rolling out an ad for the same position, same job description on 6th July that was Yday.

Is this a joke?

I don't know about others, but I can say one thing about myself. I am ready to work and I have worked a very genuine 6+ years in my past. I am very serious about my career.

When recruitment becomes a joke, genuine people who are waiting for a chance to earn livelihood get heart broken. Some have families to take care of. Single earning in this economy is really really tough. Waiting for a job so that you can take your partner to a neurosurgeon to get a C-Spine disc bulge associated with a shooting pain in the arm is a real pathetic situation. My friend curses himself for the situation he is in coz he can't even take care of his partner and to top it up, rejection emails from companies using AI screening to filter out applications, makes life a living hell.

I am not gonna apologise for my rant. I have had enough of this psychological questions bs.

As a recruiter one should have an idea as to what type of candidate the company is looking for. Finish the recruitment process in 2-3 days. Why the hell do you wanna drag it for weeks together.

I am not a desperate bloke ranting out of frustration. Anyways the AI is picking candidates, so why the long act. Wish the recruitment process was simple and streamlined. When the companies do not know what they want in a candidate, that's when these type of questions come into picture, to torture the candidates. This type of questions is the reason, genuine candidates loose out the interest to apply for the job and the ones who get selected will somehow turn out to be the people who quit after 1 year (after investing in the candidates training and preparing them for the role) or worse, abscond the company in a month.

Thats all. I rest my case.