Your CV is not being rejected by people
It is being rejected by a machine that cannot read it 🤖
Following on from my post yesterday. 👇
We have more advanced technology than ever, AI is everywhere. Yet the front door to most roles is now endlessly blocked by systems that struggle with anything beyond plain text.
You need to stand out, show personality, demonstrate creativity. Then the moment you do, your CV gets filtered out because the system cannot read it properly.
And here is the real problem 👇
⚠️ You cannot risk it not being read.
⚠️ You do not know if the first pass is a robot, a human, or a human reviewing what the system has filtered.
So you end up playing it safe, back to something bland, boring and risk free 😐
Whatever that looks like is now the challenge we all face, so we end up in a strange place.
🎨 Designers removing design.
📊 Product people removing clarity.
🧠 Great candidates simplifying themselves just to get past a gatekeeper that is not built to recognise real value.
It raises a bigger question, are we hiring the best people, or just the people who know and excel at passing the system? 🤔
The irony is hard to ignore, we talk about AI transforming how we work, yet many hiring pipelines are still stuck in a format that rewards compliance over capability.
The best people I have hired did not look like a template. Their CVs told a story, their work showed thinking, their presentation showed care.
Now we risk filtering that out before a human even sees it, this is the real challenge. 🚨
Not just how candidates adapt, but how organisations rethink hiring in a world where the tools are shaping who gets seen. Because if the front door is built for text only currently, you are going to miss the people who think beyond it.
If you like this kind of thinking around AI, human in the loop, and the idea of AI as a third brain, give me a follow and let’s figure and build this out together. 🚀