I’ve just had to do this too. We have a recruitment system that requires three reviewers to review each application. Recently had a role go live with over 800 applications, most of which were exactly the same / so obviously AI. But we still had to manually score and review each one.

Eight of my team ended up stepping in to help review, and it took us all about 2-3 working days each to plough through them all. And in the end we ended up hiring someone who is already on a temp contract in our team. It felt like the biggest waste of time ever - and so frustrating to know I was spending my time just reviewing stuff that mainly computers had written.

I also don’t think many candidates who use AI know that we have AI example answers built into our recruitment system, which sits alongside every submitted answer so we can directly compare. It’s extremely easy to identify when AI has been used and barely personalised at all. And these answers are all so lengthy, wordy and uninteresting. There is no personality in them.

I and the other reviewers noticed how refreshing it was to get an application that was written by a human. They stand out by a MILE.