Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Wednesday, June 25th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

AI is transforming job search on both sides of the equation. A first court ruling on using

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how your kid's third grade teacher is

probably using AI, and why did Apple push an ad to everybody? Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech.

Look, sometimes the roulette wheel of headlines piles things on top of each other, and today is one of those days.

I should start by acknowledging the fact that, of course, my first ever company was résumerriters.com,

but forgive me, we're going to talk about AI and resumes and hiring.

The top story on tech meme all morning was a piece from the Times about the surge in AI-generated resumes that is

starting to overwhelm employers who are then turning to AI screening and video interviewing tools

to assess responses and rank candidates, basically having to deal with the deluge of applications.

Quite the arms race at the moment. Quote, the number of applications submitted on LinkedIn

has surged more than 45% in the past year. The platform is clocking an average of 11,000

applications per minute, and generative artificial intelligence tools are contributing to the deluge.

With a simple prompt, chat GPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI will insert every

keyword from a job description into a resume.

Some candidates are going a step further, paying for AI agents that can autonomously find jobs and apply on their behalf.

Recruiters say it's getting harder to tell who is genuinely qualified or interested, and many of the resumes look suspiciously similar.

It's an applicant tsunami that's just going to

get bigger, said Huang Li, a former recruiter who writes a widely read newsletter about the industry,

enter the AI arms race. One popular method for navigating the surge, automatic chat or video

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