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With record applications (up 45%), mostly from AI agents, 20% of employers are considering pay to apply. “Pay to apply” is a process for discouraging the shotgunning of applications by charging a small application fee to candidates. And incidentally, the “AI agents” driving this massive increase in resumes aren’t people. But instead, they are AI-driven software tools.
For about $13 per week, an automated robot will send out 50 resumes for a candidate each and every day. Because of their increasing popularity, during the next year, I predict that these agents will double the number of spam resumes that companies
