Resumes will be increasingly fake, at the same rate. We're already seeing this. Recently interviewed a guy clearly using AI interview cheating tools, which is much higher barrier and risk than just making up shit on your resume.
Ok - this obviously doesn't work everywhere but recently was flown to a city for an interview. Day long, full loop, 5 45 min interviews + 1 working session with a panel. Had dinner with the team the night before.
There's no way to cheat at that point. You either have what they need (yay btw) or its not a fit
Though honestly 40 years ago, sending out hundreds of cookie cutter applications by post wasn’t that hard.
I do agree that once someone gets through an initial filter and screen they should be willing to meet in person. That has costs on both sides but, during the tech boom, one heard a lot of complaints by applicants that they’re no going to travel for interviews, dinner, etc. <shrug>
AI will do a cheap job of automatically filtering the potential candidates for a hire.
A suitable AI LLM can even be leveraged as automation that calls up the filtered candidates and evaluates them for the basics.
So that would filter the wheat from the chaff.
And then the humans can take the process further to interview and select the candidates for the hire.
So yeah, AI will replace the HR recruiters at least for the mundane tasks.