If you need a job in a tough job market you can't really afford to be picky about the opportunities. If I need a job I'm willing to put up with just about anything to get it, because the alternative is potential financial ruin for my family in a country with weak social safety nets.

The last entry level job my company posted got over two thousand applicants in less than 24 hours before they paused submissions. I don't think an AI video screen is the answer to that, but it's clearly too many applicants for one open position. And we could have had tons more if we didn't aggressively shut it off early to prevent it from building up too much. It sucks for the candidate because they spend time on an application that might never even be seen much less given a fair consideration, and it isn't ideal for the company either because they need to spend a lot more time and effort filtering through the pile to find the right people.

From a company perspective, the AI interviews don't even have to work well, they just have to get that massive number down to something vaguely manageable.

> If you need a job in a tough job market you can't really afford to be picky about the opportunities

If your odds of getting hired after wasting all that time are 1000 to one, might be smarter to look for alternate pipelines with better odds where your time benefits you regardless of outcome.

Did you put it on linkedin easyapply? That is part of the issue. So many applications I have done where its like 1 click to apply. How is this useful to people on either end? I have no clue about the job. They hardly know anything about me. game theory tells me to apply for all of these even if they are hardly relevant and the lack of friction enables it.

You want fewer candidates? Just post it on your website perhaps. You will then be limited to more ideal candidates that have identified your business as a potential fit for their skillsets, and have bothered to visit your careers page and put up with your own sisyphean system to repost what information is in the resume onto your form fields for hr who apparently cannot read a resume.

> From a company perspective, the AI interviews don't even have to work well, they just have to get that massive number down to something vaguely manageable.

Rule out everyone who isn't already local to the job location. That's an easy filter right there.