A third-party recruiter’s AI scraped an engineer’s resume, used it to generate a job description, then flagged the same engineer as the perfect candidate. The recruiter reached out with an enthusiastic offer — for the position he already held. The post went viral on Reddit as the platonic ideal of everything wrong with automated recruitment.
True story · recruiter behaviour · Issue —
Engineer Gets A Job Offer. From His Own Company. For His Own Job.
As told to the Host · Storyteller verified · via r/recruitinghell · via Economic Times
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