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.

We only posted it on our company website.