AI and Interviews: Do We Even Need Interviews Anymore?

Where is my job seeking agent?

AI and synthetic HR bots are entering the recruiting process, sometimes doing the first round of interviews. We all saw this coming, right?

Not surprisingly, the candidates are getting pissed. Here’s a recent discussion amongst tech/coders on Hacker News. But for marketers and management, this is coming to us soon.

But, it does make you wonder: What’s the point of interviews anymore? Is it a test for culture fit? Or, just to match up my keywords with your “fit” algorithm?

More importantly, it’s 2025 and we live in the AI age. Why are we still basing our job seeking activities around 300 year old tech (paper CVs) and problematic processes.

My prediction (and I have to believe there are dozens of companies already working on this stuff):

• Resumes will be replaced with a realtime feed of candidates info: Their updated work activity, their posts, their job/work status, what they’re interested in (roles, companies, projects, needs). Apps, companies, and dedicated “recruiting” agents can subscribe to the candidates feeds. Meanwhile, AI is contributing to the enshittification of resumes already.

• In the old days, screening interviews were limited to, perhaps, 60 minutes. But, in the future Job seekers will have their own app to build and maintain a video bank of themselves answering all sorts of questions about their experience, their strengths, their point of view. Candidates can keep talking as long as there are questions. Why not publish those for any recruiting agent to ingest?

• The “employee” app could have a “public” feed, open to any crawler/agent that gets approved by the employee (e.g. both parties figuratively swipe right). But, it could also have a private feed, available to trusted collaborators, friends or colleagues. The “private” feed could be used for those with jobs that are seeking their next role. Or, it could include a “make me move” feature that includes the conditions - salary/title, location, company - that would cause someone to leave their job.

• We’re going to have agent to agent negotiations, where the “recruiting” agent invites the “employee” agent to apply for the job. Let’s get on that ASAP.

• I’d love to see a worker-owned, AI native alternative to Linkedin. It might even be a use case for crypto. Revenue could come from fees paid by crawlers, agents and API calls by recruiting and headhunting platforms.

I believe we’ve got some years before the old way fades. Whatever white collar jobs are left will be filled via networking, referrals or good old fashioned connections.

But, please please please, let’s get over this weird phase where good people are talking to robots.