What if AI prefers AI-written CVs?
The signs are that it does. One law firm’s experience is revealing.
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While AI has made the job of applying for a job much faster and easier, the problem was that the longer it took to sift through applications, the higher the chance that good candidates would find work elsewhere, says the writer.
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Pilita Clark
Earlier in 2026, in the depths of summer, the Addleshaw Goddard law firm found itself in a slight pickle.
In what was becoming a familiar pattern, an advertisement it had placed for an IT job in its human resources department had drawn a slew of applications.