The Hiring Market Now
The Hiring Market Now is a public community on OnJob. What is actually happening in hiring right now - AI screening, ghost postings, the junior squeeze, and what still works.
What are people discussing in The Hiring Market Now?
- Divya Nair
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 b…
- Sneha Kulkarni
Welcome to The Hiring Market Now
This one is for the arguments happening everywhere else: whether AI has eaten junior roles, whether half the postings are real, whether anyone reads a resume before a machine does…
- Neha Sharma
The market is not shrinking so much as changing shape, and the aggregate numbers hide that
Overall software postings were up modestly year on year in 2026 while security roles grew enormously and AI and machine learning postings grew nearly as fast. What contracted was …
- Ananya Iyer
One finding that got less attention than it deserved
In roles heavily exposed to AI, employment for workers over thirty actually rose while the youngest cohort fell. The usual reading is that experience is the thing being valued, be…
- Arjun Mehta
When response rates fall, the instinct is to apply to more roles. It usually makes things worse
More applications means less time per application, which means more generic ones, which is precisely what gets filtered. The counterintuitive move in a bad market is to cut your w…
- Vikram Singh
The junior squeeze is real, and pretending otherwise does not help anyone
Junior developer postings are down sharply against five years ago, and the work that used to fill a first year - boilerplate, small well-specified features, easy bug fixes - is th…
- Rahul Verma
Using AI to write your applications is now normal, and it is quietly making applications worse
Recruiters read hundreds of these. The generated ones converge on the same rhythm, the same three-part sentences, the same enthusiasm about an exciting opportunity. When everythin…
- Neha Sharma
Ghost postings are not a conspiracy theory anymore, and the numbers are worse than most people assume
A 2026 Clarify Capital survey of more than a thousand hiring managers found 68 percent of companies admit to keeping roles posted with no intention of filling them. Separate repor…
- Rahul Verma
If you are trying to break in right now, the thing that moves the needle is evidence you can work without a spec
Anything where you decided what to build, dealt with a real user, and shipped it counts more than another tutorial project. That is the exact skill the shrinking category no longe…
- Pooja Desai
Both sides of hiring stopped trusting the other in the same two years
Candidates cannot tell which postings are real. Employers cannot tell which resumes were written by the applicant. AI made it cheap to fake either one, and the signal that used to…