The ability to stand out when applying for a job has been thwarted by AI. But a new tool promises job seekers an easier path to recruiters’ inboxes.
The use of AI by talent acquisition teams has been explored by more articles, more panel discussions and more conference presentations than I can count. Now, in what seems like an inevitable step, AI has become available for job-seekers as well.
It comes in the form of a bot called Auto_Jobs_Applier_AIHawk. If you know a bit of Python, you can set it up to apply for hundreds of jobs a day on LinkedIn. Unless you want to tweak its work on the fly, it’s completely automated.

The bot, which is available on GitHub, is meant to “balance the use of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process,” AIHawk’s creator, Italian software developer Federico Elia, told 404 Media. “By automating repetitive tasks and personalizing applications, AIHawk reduces the time and effort required from candidates, increasing their chances of being noticed by employers,” he said.

Whether AIHawk delivers better job search results or simply clogs an employer’s ATS remains to be seen. Still, it should find a willing user base. For years, candidates have complained about the hiring process — from its clunkiness (enter your resume in the text field, then upload it as a pdf) to its weight in favor of employers (ghosting is acceptable … for the employer).

And, indeed, AIHawk already has thousands of users, reports 404 Media. To start, they must install Python, modify a bit of code and program an API key. Once that’s done, users enter information about themselves that the bot can tweak for a particular job or range of jobs. Career experts urge candidates to create a customized resume and cover letter for each position they apply for. AIHawk takes care of that by creating original answers to screening questions.

And AIHawk doesn’t just apply for jobs. It also identifies opportunities that it sees as aligning with the job seeker’s background.

AI for Job Seekers: Viability, Adoption and Reception
In a recent interview on my podcast PeopleTech, Geoff Webb, analyst at 3Sixty Insights and author, said the emergence of an AI tool for job seekers was inevitable, but not necessarily welcome.
“I think it speaks to this almost sort of sense of an arms race between recruiter and the recruitee, as far as getting through the process is concerned,” he told me. “It feels like it’s almost becoming very adversarial between the people applying for jobs and the companies to which they are applying.”

He calls AIHawk “an unexpected but rather sobering twist to the story right now.”

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