Wailin Wong

There is so, so much AI involved in this process now, and you're increasingly just up against, like, such an icy void.

Thank you.

Yeah, I mean, I think Waylon nailed it.

I think one way you can definitely describe it is just very slow.

I mean, the economy is just at a sluggish rate, and it has been going that way for a while now.

I mean, not least thanks in part to high interest rates.

People generally, no matter what sector they're in, they're hesitant to invest too much in new hires, and they're also hesitant to take on, say, hires who require more resources, like, say,

Maybe you want someone who's a lower paid entry level position, but you don't want to put in all the time and money into training them.

There's a lot of just trying to not take too many risks or not grow too fast and such in this time when no one really knows what the economic situation may look like even three months from now.

You know, a certain company will have listed a bunch of like potential hiring opportunities just to like let their investors know like, hey, we're still growing.

You know, we're still hiring.

We're still doing this thing.

The person who gets screwed is the applicant because they don't know.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

A lot of the time, I mean, obviously people are so desperate that they're trying to hit the keywords.

They're trying to, you know, hide like a little like plain text in their resumes to make sure it gets picked up by the engines or that it will like appeal to the robot who may do their little first round interview.

You know, there is so, so much AI involved in this process now.

And, you know,

There's so much of this process that's been automated.