Half of us are using AI to write resumes, the other half is using AI to screen them, and I don't think anyone's actually looking at people anymore

saw a stat this morning that's been bugging me all day. 47% of small businesses are using AI somewhere in HR now, screening resumes, onboarding, all that. fine whatever, expected at this point but then i saw the other half of it. more than half of applicants are using AI to write their resumes and cover letters too. linkedin is apparently getting like 11,000 applications a minute right now which is insane to even think about so just sit with that for a sec. candidate uses AI to write the resume, company uses AI to read it, and somewhere in between an actual person who might be genuinely good just gets a score slapped on them by two bots that never even talk to each other anyway the resume just isn't a signal anymore imo. it used to at least tell you who could write, who bothered to tailor it, who paid attention. now everyone's bullets are quantified and everyone reads like they came out of a mckinsey deck. the doc is flawless and somehow tells you nothing i've basically given up trying to win that game at this point. i skim resumes for like 20 seconds now, just enough to cut anyone wildly unqualified, and save the real energy for the interview i've got a few things i look for when i'm trying to spot the people who actually build stuff vs the ones just filling a seat. did they fix something nobody asked them to fix. will they push back on me instead of just nodding along. do they actually own the outcome or just the task problem is none of that shows up fast, takes time to actually see it in someone and it's genuinely hard to catch in one interview. but it's what i'm reaching for when the resume gives me nothing curious what everyone else is doing honestly, if the resume basically tells you nothing anymore what's actually replacing it for you