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Fortune
Fortune
Orianna Rosa Royle

CEO of the top-rated hiring platform says the job market is so bad that candidates are paying $20 to mass apply and driving bosses crazy with spam

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Job seekers are exhausted. Tired of shooting résumés into the void and getting ghosted, many have started paying for AI tools that blast their application out to every open role they can find. But according to Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait, employers are just as miserable—and he’s got a name for the hiring nightmare: an AI doom loop.

“This is the first time when really both sides have been unhappy,” Chait told Fortune. “The market just isn’t working for either side.”

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