Shanique Miller has been job hunting for the past year, sending hundreds of applications in the hope of securing her big break in publishing or media.
In that time, she’s secured four interviews – for a publishing company, a gardening magazine, and a coffee chain – and three of them were with AI bots.
The interview experiences left Miller feeling like “a deer in the headlights”, she says. Because she knows how AI vets interview transcripts, she found herself adapting her personality and natural way of speaking to meet the formulaic questions delivered, essentially, by a robot.
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“To know that AI is looking over those videos and saying you’ve paused too many times, you hesitated, you stuttered, you’re not using optimal keywords – it’s like I now have to kind of be robotic in order to get the AI’s validation,” says Miller, 25, from Slough.
