In recruitment, an AI-on-AI war is rewriting the hiring playbook

Roei Samuel, founder of networking platform Connectd, has been hiring at speed — 14 roles in six months. But he’s begun to wonder if candidates’ answers are genuine, even on video calls. “I can see their eyes shifting across the screen,” he says. “Then they come back with the perfect answer to a question.” The trust gap between employer and jobseeker is widening, and it’s fast becoming one of the trickiest knots in modern hiring.

From ChatGPT-polished CVs to full-blown applications submitted by bots, GenAI has hit the job market hard and gone fully mainstream. For a sizable generation of jobseekers — 68% of European tech workers were actively looking for a new role at the end of 2024 — it’s commonplace to use AI to tweak a CV or even complete an entire application.

Tools like Sonara, LazyApply, and JobCopilot have made it easy to shoot off dozens of ...