Quick Apply is the most irresponsible invention for hiring

Quick Apply is the most irresponsible invention for hiring.

Maybe it started with good intentions. “Reduce repetitive work for candidates”, “help candidates apply to jobs on the go”, “help employers access more candidates”. But they failed to anticipate the full consequences of this feature. As someone who's been recruiting for the past few years, I've experienced first-hand the blow it has brought on us.

Reduce repetitive work and apply on the go? Okay. Except now all that is left is mind-numbingly repetitive work. Candidates can apply without thinking through whether the company or the job is the right fit for their lifestyle, career progression, personal growth, interests, values and beliefs.

Give employers more candidates? Sure. But at what cost? Hiring managers are now drowning in CVs, half of which belong to candidates who are not remotely qualified for the job, and the rest came from candidates who can’t spell the company name correctly.

Beyond the noise that clouds hiring managers' judgement, Quick Apply has also created a false sense of popularity. It takes away the incentive and signals upon which companies can invest in their employer branding, which is a very important element to get right in order to build a sustainable hiring mechanism in the long run.

Of course, coupled with autonomous AI, we simply have crazy on steroids.

So where does that leave us? Must we keep powering through hiring with this ridiculous setup?

No. Not at all.

People are already rejecting the premise of CVs being the basis of hiring and Quick Apply being the norm. I’m very excited to be building Wolven at this inflection point. We have a single focus to put humans back at the centre of hiring. We are challenging the status quo of the CVs and Quick Apply, and we are rejecting newfangled solutions, such as AI interviews and AI assessments, that go against our beliefs.