Roughly half of employers now use AI somewhere in resume screening

And about 73 percent of job seekers believe a filter is what killed their application.

Both of those can be true at once, and the second one is the interesting part. When people believe the machine rejected them, they stop tailoring applications, which makes the next rejection more likely. It becomes self-confirming.

Write for a human who has fifteen seconds. That also happens to be what survives the parser.