Ghost jobs, robot gatekeepers and AI interviewers: let me tell you about the dark new age of job hunting Eleanor Margolis

AWhen I apply for another job, I look at the company’s website to get the context. I’ve read their “What We Do” section four or five times now and I have a problem: I can’t figure out what they do. There are two options here. First: They don’t know what they’re doing. Second, what they are doing is so senseless and embarrassing that they dare not say it in plain English. “We forge marketing systems at the forefront of the online wellness space” translates to something like “We use ChatGPT to sell questionable supplements.”

But understand what so many companies actually do Do is the least of my worries. I am currently one of the 5% of unemployed Brits. During my six-month job search, my complete lack of success caused me to question my own existence. Just like repeating a word over and over until it loses all meaning, when you repeatedly apply for jobs in a similar field, the semantics of the entire situation begin to fall apart like a snotty tissue. To…