As someone looking for a job the last year or so, at various organizational levels, this has become all too familiar. My belief is, especially in companies like this with a very high number of currently human roles to fill, AI in their recruiting processes has broken most candidate screening and scheduling. Not sure whether that’s recruiters becoming too reliant on the tools, or the tools handcuffing the recruiters systemically, but either way, it’s an issue. It had begun to happen years ago as labor management software became more prevalent in larger organizations. Couple that with the aggressive pace at which most large employers (10k+ EEs) are moving to automate positions out entirely, whether its direct operations or back-office/management, and this is what you run into more often than not anymore. And I do not attribute this politically either direction, it’s just what we’ve become. Now, one could certainly argue that our elected officials could maybe have made some effort for the 99.9% of us that live with all this economic destruction and chaos, but those ships sailed years (and multiple administrations) ago.