The AI Application Flood Is Here. Here's How to Fight Back
Allright, a new year, a new webinar! And what better topic than the hottest one in the industry - job seekers flooding ATS with applications using AI!
11,000 applications per minute. That's what LinkedIn recorded last June - a 45% spike from the year before.
If you've posted a job recently, you've felt this firsthand. Hundreds of applications within hours. Resumes that look almost too perfect. Cover letters that hit every keyword but somehow feel... off.
According to Greenhouse's 2025 AI in Hiring Report, 65% of hiring managers have caught applicants using AI deceptively - reading from AI-generated scripts, hiding prompts in resumes to bypass screening, or even showing up as deepfakes.
"Trust is at an all-time low for both job seekers and recruiters," says Daniel Chait, CEO of Greenhouse. He calls it an "AI doom loop": candidates spray out AI-generated applications, recruiters drown in volume, and everyone loses.
AI application tools have changed everything. Some genuinely help job seekers find the right fit. Others are spam factories - fabricating credentials, generating fake resumes on the fly, and burying real candidates under a mountain of junk.
The frustrating part? Proper bot detection takes engineering resources, time, and budget that most teams don't have.
And predictably, vendors are now jumping in with tools that promise to detect AI-augmented resumes.
Spoiler: This is technically impossible. Reliably distinguishing AI-assisted writing from human writing remains an unsolved problem across the industry. But fear sells, and it was only a matter of time before someone tried to monetize the panic.
A different approach
Together with Oras Al-Kubaisi, we're running a live session focused on practical tactics any recruiter can implement today - no technical team required.
We'll cover:
- Simple tweaks to job descriptions that trip up automated tools
- Hidden verification techniques bots can't follow
- How to spot the patterns in AI-generated applications
- Free screening methods to surface genuine candidates
This webinar will not talk about eliminating AI applications entirely - that ship has sailed. We want to show you that you can take back control of your talent acquisition pipeline without waiting for IT to build a solution.
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