Beat the AI Filter - Introduction

The AI Hiring Landscape

A Look at ATS (Aplicant Tracking Software)

The Fundamentals of a Strong CV

How to Get Past AI Filters

R-Strategists and K-Strategists

What about AI?

Example of an AI CV

Conclusion

Welcome to Beat the AI Filter, a short and sweet course that looks at how AI is used in hiring and how you can stand out in this competitive landscape.

Introduction

It feels like the job search is getting harder and harder these days. A few short years ago you couldn’t throw a rock without hitting one of the many recruiters trying to get into your LinkedIn inbox. But now, things have changed

 

Big companies are laying off employees in record numbers (in part due to AI) and competition is getting tougher. It’s not uncommon to see a job post have 100+ applicants after only a few hours – even for relatively junior roles. And everyone knows that recruiters are using AI to screen and shortlist candidates. With the volume of candidates they get, this isn’t just efficient – it’s necessary.

 

That means there is a digital filter before any human reads your CV. 

 

Getting rejected without even having a person check you out seems unfair, but that's the nature of the game today.

 

For a high-demand job, up to 90% of candidates could be rejected by an AI, or be given a lower-ranked score by candidate enrichment systems (basically the same thing).

 

So how can you stand out in today’s hiring landscape? What can you do to make sure a recruiter reads your CV?

 

And the big one – should I use AI to generate my CV? This seems logical, an AI will pass the filter written by AI. But it isn’t always so simple, though AI can be a great tool to help craft a winning CV

In this course, we look at the landscape of AI  in hiring, the different types of AI screening tools, and we look at what you can do to make your CV stand out. We also discuss whether/how you should use AI in your job applications.

Get your CV seen by a Human

In this course we look at how AI is used in Applicant Tracking Software (ATS), what you can do to make your CV stand out in the age of AI filters, and we also look at whether and how to use AI to jazz up your applications.

Beat the AI Filter

How you can use AI yourself to be more competitive

We also take a critical look at an AI genrated CV

Forbes - 65% of Employers to Use AI to Assess Candidates in 2025

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### The AI Hiring Landscape

Forbes - 65% of Employers to Use AI to Assess Candidates in 2025

Nick Badot

So first I want to take a top-down look at the hiring landscape.

One of the big sources I'm going to draw on for this is a Forbes article from

December 2024, which was based on a poll of many employers in the US asking

how they're planning to use AI to assess candidates.

Now, 65% of them said they are planning to use AI, especially mid-sized and

larger companies. And of those, we got a breakdown of what they're planning to

it for. Most common by far is to resume, review rather resumes, which is what

going to cover today mostly. A lot of them use them to assess candidate

So this is things like you're coding exams, like hacker, and stuff like this.

This is stuff like assessing written interviews or things that are

This has been the thing for a while, but now that it's very easy to just use AI

search someone's LinkedIn profile, search someone's personal website, this is

becoming more and more common, especially with some more advanced tracking

softwares. It's worth to note that this probably also includes stuff like

repositories, right? Or if you have a portfolio, if you're like a front-end

developer or technical writer or something, that stuff will also be in the

Chatbots communicate with candidates directly what it says on the tin.

Chat AI chatbots are everywhere now, right? They're very easy to implement.

Again, not too surprising there, since AI is being implemented in many

And 19% actually said they use them for conducting interviews.

Now I have seen some interviews like this.

I've seen kind of two types, one where in AI is proctoring the interview.

So you have a coding test or you have whatever, multiple choice question,

And there's an AI proctor that basically takes over your screen, your

camera, whatever, and it kind of checks to see if you're looking to the side,

checking another screen, stuff like this.

The other one is actually just AI LLM driven interviews, right?

Where you have effectively a chatbot that runs you through a couple of

different cross questions relevant to your domain and records your answers.

There'll probably be more types of these coming out.

But those are the two that I've encountered in hiring.